George Oliver Kowalik
@kowalikgeorge
Writer & researcher. Author of 'Hybrid Novels: Post-postmodernism, Sincerity, and Race at the Turn of the 21st Century' (Routledge). Currently teaching at Glasgow Caledonian University London.
Book manuscript submitted! Our essay collection with Manchester UP has a heck of a lineup!
Excited to sign a contract with @manchesterup.bsky.social for my next academic book project - a co-edited collection (with Keith Mitchell) on the work of Percival Everett!
Print version of Peruse Zine arrived! Link to read online/buy: www.peruselit.com/peruse-zine
Finally got my hands on a print copy of my essay for the Journal of American Studies on ‘Erasure,’ career paths, and doing a PhD!
My flash fiction “Libra” appears in the latest issue of Freshwater Literary Journal. It’s the second story in my Work Trilogy published, after “Influence.” It’s set on a hot day, told from the perspective of a university library assistant. amzn.eu/d/05MONRlt
Excited to have “Draft Two” - the longest short story I’ve written so far - appear in grist. It’s about a band on tour, toxic masculinity, cancel culture, and Green Day’s “Boulevard of Broken Dreams.”
a couple of big ones bought in Tokyo before they’re out in the UK 😍
My book came out on Friday! Hybrid Novels has chapters on Percival Everett, Jonathan Franzen, Zadie Smith & David Foster Wallace, before turning to Sheila Heti, Ben Lerner, Teju Cole & Tao Lin. c20/c21 scholars/students… order in to your libraries! www.routledge.com/Hybrid-Novel...
“Impeded” - feat. junior football firms, British pub culture, organised fights, directionless male youth ✍️ shop.thebrusselsreview.com/products/tbr...
My book is out a week today! Amazon: www.amazon.co.uk/Hybrid-Novel... Bookshop: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/hybr... Waterstones: www.waterstones.com/book/hybrid-...
I have a short story in The Brussels Review’s new “Blanc” anthology, which is available now: shop.thebrusselsreview.com A couple of big influences on ‘Impeded’ were Melville’s “Billy Budd” and Bill Buford’s ‘Among the Thugs’
‘The Peel’ was included in this anthology after being shortlisted for the MTP 2025 Short Story Competition. It was originally published last year: www.sanspress.com/the-archive-...
My 2023 journal article on post-postmodernism (part of my PhD research, now part of my forthcoming first book) won an award! My thanks to ‘Humanities’ 🙏
Excited to have my story ‘The Peel’ shortlisted for the MTP 2025 Short Story Competition. It’ll be appearing in a print anthology next month!
I have a new story about Polishness and the Life in the UK Test in the new issue of Reverie Magazine. I wrote it before this week’s government White Paper. I for one might fuck off outta this country if we keep pretending that our economy and society doesn’t/hasn’t ALWAYS relied on immigrants.
My story ‘Hinterland’ - a speculative fiction about dreams, coffee shops, and city life - is in the new issue of The Interpreter’s House. theinterpretershouse.org/current-issue
I have a new story in the latest issue of Freshwater Literary Journal! Available online here: issuu.com/freshwaterli....
I have a book review in the new issue of The Journal of David Foster Wallace Studies!
Gonna make a more concerted effort to use this platform! I have a couple more stories coming out in print in 🇺🇸 in the next few months. A long one about a band on tour hit by scandal… and a flash fiction about grief, football, VAR, and playing with a high press.
A new story of mine will appear in Twenty-two Twenty-eight a week on Weds!
Looking forward to my story ‘My Unimaginary Friend’ - pubbed last year in print - being republished by Literally Stories (online) in March!
Was glad to have some writing published last year… Links to everything: georgeoliverkowalik.wordpress.com
At a preview screening last night (with Q&A) of Cord Jefferson’s adaptation of Everett’s ‘Erasure’: ‘American Fiction’