Martyn Bedford

Martyn Bedford
Born1959 (age 66–67)
Alma materUniversity of East Anglia
Occupations
  • Novelist
  • literary critic

Martyn Bedford (born 1959) is a British novelist, literary critic and author of electronic literature.

Life and career

He is an alumnus of the University of East Anglia.[1]

The first twelve years of Martyn Bedford's writing career were spent as a journalist on regional newspapers, notably at the Bradford Telegraph and Argus.[2]

His initial book Acts of Revision won the Yorkshire Post “Best First Work” Award.[3] He later became the director of the novel writing programme at the University of Manchester, and is fiction critic for the Literary Review.[4] Currently, Bedford teaches the Creative Writing module at Leeds Trinity University.[5]

Bedford's digital narrative The Virtual Disappearance of Miriam, which was written with Andy Campbell in 2000 and published first on the Dreaming Methods website and then in The New River in 2010, is now archived in The NEXT Museum, an archive for electronic literature.[6] This short visual piece has three possible endings,[7] and has been analysed in several scholarly works.[8][7][9]

In 2008–10, he was Academic Writer-in-Residence, Royal Literary Fund Fellow.[1] Bedford lives in Ilkley, West Yorkshire, with his wife and two daughters.

Awards and honours

Bibliography

  • Acts of Revision (Doubleday, 1996)
  • Exit, Orange & Red (Bantam, 1997)
  • The Houdini Girl (Random House, 1999)
  • Black Cat (Viking, 2000)
  • The Virtual Disappearance of Miriam (digital narrative, 2000)[6]
  • The Island of Lost Souls (Bloomsbury, 2006)
  • Flip (Walker, 2011)
  • Never Ending (Walker, 2014)
  • Twenty Questions for Gloria (Walker, 2016)

References

  1. 1 2 "Martyn Bedford". The Royal Literary Fund. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
  2. ↑ "Author shortlisted for top book prize". Bradford Telegraph and Argus. 22 November 2011. Retrieved 24 July 2024.
  3. ↑ "Books Outloud - Video - Yorkshire Post". www.yorkshirepost.co.uk. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
  4. ↑ Bloomsbury.com. "Bloomsbury - Authors". Archived from the original on 5 September 2008. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
  5. ↑ "Martyn Bedford - Leeds Trinity University". research.leedstrinity.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
  6. 1 2 "The Virtual Disappearance of Miriam". The NEXT. Retrieved 4 April 2026.
  7. 1 2 Pope, James (2006). "A Future for Hypertext Fiction". Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. 12 (4): 447–465. doi:10.1177/1354856506068368. ISSN 1354-8565.
  8. ↑ Saemmer, Alexandra (2009). "Reading Guidelines For Electronic Literature". In Sanz, Amelia; Romero, Dolores (eds.). Literatures in the Digital Era: Theory and Praxis. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 152–165. ISBN 9781847182913.
  9. ↑ Tuan, Lydia (9 December 2016). "Virtual Playgrounds: Electronic Literature's Challenge to Authorship". FORUM: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & the Arts (23). doi:10.2218/forum.23.1712. ISSN 1749-9771.
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