N G F Clark is an award-winning writer from Leeds in the north of England.

In 2020 he won the international Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize with his short fiction ‘Let the Wild Ones Pass Through’. His story stood out from more than three thousand entries from around the world and was selected as the winner after three rounds of judging.

His short story ‘Damsons’ was Runner-Up in the Desperate Literature Prize 2023 and was the top pick of competition judge Mariana Enríquez. The story is published in Eleven Stories: Desperate Literature Prize Shortlist Selection (2023) and in 22 Fictions (2025) – an anthology of new writing featuring stories from two of Europe’s leading fiction prizes.

Nick’s ghost story ‘Rattenkönig’ won the Tethered By Letters Summer Short Story Contest 2014, whilst his fairy tale retelling, ‘The Second House’, was published in anthology Eye Spy from University of Bournemouth’s Fresher Press in 2021 .

Nick’s fiction examines notions of the uncanny, the weird, and spectral, and principally where these derive from disruptions in relations between people and place. He is currently working on his first novel and short story collection.

His non-fiction covers a wide base of criticism and review across literature, culture and the creative arts, and has seen publication on various platforms including Dead Ink, Literature Works, and Fantasy Faction. A selection of essays are published on this website.

Nick graduated from the University of Leeds in 2007 with a BA (Joint Hons.) in English and History. Since then, he has gone on to work as a communications professional for one of the largest teaching hospitals in Europe. His team were Highly Commended for Best In-house Comms team in The Drum PR Awards 2019. Nick was part of a project group developing an anthology of stories responding to issues of race and racism in the NHS. He helped edit the story collection and led on the book’s promotion and distribution, which was published in 2021.

To discuss commissions, collaborations, or for any queries, email Nick at: ngfclark[at]yahoo.co.uk, or find him on Twitter.

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