ANDREW MICHAEL HURLEY

Andrew was born in 1975 and lives in Preston, Lancashire. His first novel, The Loney (John Murray, 2015) – set in and around Morecambe Bay won the Costa First Novel Award, was shortlisted for the James Herbert Award, and has been published in seven territories. His second novel, Devil's Day (John Murray), was published in 2017 and its setting, ‘The Endlands’, is based on Langden valley in the Forest of Bowland. Devil’s Day was the joint winner of the Royal Society of Literature’s 2018 Encore Award for the best second novel. His third novel Starve Acre (John Murray, 2019) focuses on the landscape of the Yorkshire Dales. Andrew is a Member of the Centre for Place Writing and teaches creative writing at Manchester Met. His submission, The Fairytale, imagines a near future in which society is segregated for health reasons and in which widespread flooding has forced communities to be uprooted and rehoused on new purpose-built estates. The story focuses on one such group of people displaced from the Calder Valley, who find that the wood, which grows inside their zone offers them the possibility of escape once every year.