About Matt Wilven
Matt Wilven is the author of of two acclaimed novels, The Blackbird Singularity (shortlisted for Amazon’s Rising Star Award, longlisted for the Guardian’s Not the Booker Prize, and selected for WHSmith’s Fresh Talent) and Farzaneh and the Moon. His work explores the tension between our inner worlds and external realities.
Here, at The Writing Lab, he continues that exploration by sharing his work in progress: a new serialised novel, SHOW HOME, and dispatches on the architecture of story and the life of a writer.
Books
The Blackbird Singularity (Legend Press, 2016)
Shortlisted for the Amazon Rising Star Award, longlisted for the Guardian Not the Booker Prize, and selected for WHSmith Fresh Talent.
Vince stops taking his lithium when he learns his partner is pregnant. As withdrawal takes hold, he drifts into a hallucinatory world of grief, birdsong, and haunting voices, searching for a way back to himself and the life he almost lost.
“Wilven does a masterful job of keeping his readers as off-balance as his protagonist… an intense and satisfyingly off-beat examination of a man lost in a landscape of unresolved grief.” — Melissa DeCarlo, author of The Art of Crash Landing
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Farzaneh and the Moon (Legend Press, 2019)
When N meets the charismatic Farzaneh, their passionate affair seems to promise transformation. But as Farzaneh turns inward, drawn into a strange, mystical connection with the moon, N is forced to confront the limits of love, intimacy, and identity.
“Captures all the frantic rhythms and passions of student life… and adds a dark twist with its inflection of the obsessional and mystical.” — Professor Philip Tew
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The Writing Lab is a space to explore the architecture of story and the inner life of the writer. It is home to two ongoing projects:
SHOW HOME: A new psychological thriller novel, published in weekly chapters.Dispatches: Posts on the craft of fiction and the strange vocation of writing.
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