Adam Foulds

BIOGRAPHY
I am a poet and novelist originally from the UK, now a Canadian resident. I’ve published four novels and a poetry collection and bunch of other things. I’ve won a number of literary awards, including being shortlisted for the Booker Prize. I’ve taught creative writing at workshops and universities in Britain, Canada, and elsewhere.

PUBLICATIONS

Books:

DREAM SEQUENCE, novel, February 2019, Jonathan Cape, UK/ June 2019, FSG, US.

IN THE WOLF’S MOUTH, novel, February 2014, Jonathan Cape/ June 2014, FSG, US.

THE QUICKENING MAZE, novel, Cape, 2009.

THE BROKEN WORD, narrative poem, Cape Poetry, 2008.

THE TRUTH ABOUT THESE STRANGE TIMES, novel, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2007.

 

 

Other Publications:

(All publications are in print with possible online formats also).

 

 

Article on Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet, Foxed Quarterly, Forthcoming.

Article on Daniil Trifonov Concert in Montreal, Times Literary Supplement, May 20, 2022

‘Ghosts’ Short Story, Granta 159, Spring 2022.

Article/ Review on Solitude and Loneliness, Times Literary Supplement, May 29 2020

Article on Nabokov’s The Gift, Slightly Foxed Quarterly, Summer 2019.

Article on music and the writing process, Literary Review Canada, May 2019.

Article on Brexit, Globe and Mail newspaper, Canada, May 2019.

Essay, ‘Swifts.’  Granta 142, Animalia, Winter 2018.

Review/ article on Denis Johnson’s fiction, Financial Times, Jan 19, 2018.

Review, Basil Bunting’s Collected Poems, Areté Magazine, issue 51.

Review, The Burning Ground, Adam O’Riordan, Guardian Newspaper, Jan 25th 2017.

Article, Geoffrey Hill’s Collected Poems, Slightly Foxed Magazine, 2017, tbc.

Catalogue Introduction for Paula Rego, The Last King of Portugal And Other Stories, exhibition, Marlborough Fine Art, 2014.

Essay for On Life Writing, Zachary Leader ed, OUP 2014.  Version of a lecture given at the Huntington Library 2012 Life Writing Conference.

The Broken Word, radio play adaptation, BBC Radio 4, autumn 2013.

‘A World Intact’, extract from In The Wolf’s Mouth, Granta 123: Best Of Young British Novelists, April 2013.

‘Dreams Of A Leisure Society,’ short story, Granta 119, ‘Britain’ issue, 2012.

‘A Kindness,’ short story, The New Statesman magazine, 2012.

Introduction to The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, Vintage Classics, Spring 2011.

Essay on ‘St. Jerome’ by Farrukh Beg, miniature painting in the Museum Of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar, as part of the ‘Reflections’ project edited by Ahdaf Soueif, Bloomsbury Qatar foundation, 2011.

‘The Rules Are The Rules,’ short story in PEN/ O Henry Prize Stories 2011, Anchor, Spring 2011.

‘The Rules Are The Rules,’ short story Granta ‘Sex’ Issue, 2010.

 

Translations of various books and publications into a number of languages, including French, Spanish, Russian, Italian, Hungarian, Czech, Arabic and Hebrew.

AWARDS

Longlisted for the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize for Fiction.

Shortlisted for the 2015 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.

Named as one of the New Generation Poets, 2014.

Winner of the E M Forster Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters, May 2013.

Named one of Granta’s Best Of Young British Novelists, April 2013.

Winner, European Union Prize For Literature, 2011.

Winner 2010 Encore Award for The Quickening Maze.

Winner of South Bank Show Literature Award 2009 for The Quickening Maze.

Shortlisted for Man Booker Prize 2009 for The Quickening Maze.

Shortlisted for 2008 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for The Quickening Maze.

Longlisted for the 2009 Dublin Impac Award for The Quickening Maze.

The Quickening Maze chosen among Books Of The Year, Guardian newspaper and as one of the fifteen best novels of 2010 by The New Yorker magazine.

Winner 2008 Costa Poetry Prize for The Broken Word.

Winner 2008 Somerset Maugham Award for The Broken Word.

Shortlisted for 2008 Sunday Times Young Writer Of The Year Award for The Broken Word.

Shortlisted for 2008 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for  The Broken Word.

Winner 2007 Sunday Times Young Writer Of The Year Award for The Truth About These Strange Times.

Winner 2007 Betty Trask Award for The Truth About These Strange Times.


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Simultaneous Submissions

The Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia (WFNS) administers some programs (and special projects) that involve print and/or digital publication of ‘selected’ or ‘winning’ entries. In most cases, writing submitted to these programs and projects must not be previously published and must not be simultaneously under consideration for publication by another organization. Why? Because our assessment and selection processes depends on all submitted writing being available for first publication. If writing selected for publication by WFNS has already been published or is published by another organization firstcopyright issues will likely make it impossible for WFNS to (re-)publish that writing.

When simultaneous submissions to a WFNS program are not permitted, it means the following:

  • You may not submit writing that has been accepted for future publication by another organization.
  • You may not submit writing that is currently being considered for publication by another organization—or for another prize that includes publication.
  • The writing submitted to WFNS may not be submitted for publication to another organization until the WFNS program results are communicated. Results will be communicated directly to you by email and often also through the public announcement of a shortlist or list of winners. Once your writing is no longer being considered for the WFNS program, you are free to submit it elsewhere.
    • If you wish to submit your entry elsewhere before WFNS program results have been announced, you must first contact WFNS to withdraw your entry. Any entry fee cannot be refunded.

Prohibitions on simultaneous submission do not apply to multiple WFNS programs. You are always permitted to submit the same unpublished writing to multiple WFNS programs (and special projects) at the same time, such as the Alistair MacLeod Mentorship Program, the Emerging Writers Prizes, the Jampolis Cottage Residency Program, the Message on a Bottle contest, the Nova Writes Competition, and any WFNS projects involving one-time or recurring special publications.

Recommended Experience Levels

The Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia (WFNS) recommends that participants in any given workshop have similar levels of creative writing and / or publication experience. This ensures that each participant gets value from the workshop⁠ and is presented with information, strategies, and skills that suit their career stage. The “Recommended experience level” section of each workshop description refers to the following definitions used by WFNS.

  • New writers: those with less than two years’ creative writing experience and/or no short-form publications (e.g., short stories, personal essays, or poems in literary magazines, journals, anthologies, or chapbooks).
  • Emerging writers: those with more than two years’ creative writing experience and/or numerous short-form publications.
  • Early-career authors: those with 1 or 2 book-length publications or the equivalent in book-length and short-form publications.
  • Established authors: those with 3 or 4 book-length publications.
  • Professional authors: those with 5 or more book-length publications.

Please keep in mind that each form of creative writing (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and writing for children and young adults) provides you with a unique set of experiences and skills, so you might consider yourself an ‘established author’ in one form but a ‘new writer’ in another.

For “intensive” and “masterclass” creative writing workshops, which provide more opportunities for peer-to-peer feedback, the recommended experience level should be followed closely.

For all other workshops, the recommended experience level is just that—a recommendation—and we encourage potential participants to follow their own judgment when registering.

If you’re uncertain of your experience level with regard to any particular workshop, please feel free to contact us at communications@writers.ns.ca