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Author Description Adam Farrer is an essayist, the Editor of the creative nonfiction journal The Real Story and the Writer in Residence for Peel Park, Salford. <br /><br />His first book, Cold Fish Soup, a memoir in essays, won the NorthBound Book Award at the 2021 Northern Writers’ Awards. The follow up, Broken Biscuits and Other Male Failures, was published by Harper North in 2025. His writing can be found in numerous publications, including the Guardian, Metro, Test Signal (Dead Ink Books/Bloomsbury, 2021), Hinterland journal (2022), North Country (Saraband, 2022), Lunate (2023) and Writing the Real (Dead Ink Books, 2026). <br /><br />He has been a photo lab technician, a kitchen porter, the voice of an automated phone system, an illustrator, a ceramicist, a musician and a music journalist. He has taught memoir writing and creative nonfiction at the University of Lancaster, Moniack Mhor and Arvon Lumb Bank as well as extensively in prisons.

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