Tomas Marcantonio
AUTHOR
BOOKS
“This Ragged, Wastrel Thing is alive with colour, energy and vibrant language. Marcantonio possesses the rare ability of enticing the reader to turn the page, not only to discover what happens next, but to experience yet another visceral and original turn of phrase. A beautifully vicious read.”
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– Adam Lock – Author of Dinosaur
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“This Ragged, Wastrel Thing is a neon distorted, gritty reflection of humanity and its quest to find belonging – dystopian novels haven’t had it this good since Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid's Tale.”
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– Ross Jeffery – Author of Juniper and Tethered
This Ragged,
Wastrel Thing
How Not To Live Your Twenties
The Leap of Grebes
Gift of the Gap
BOOKS
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“This Ragged, Wastrel Thing is alive with colour, energy and vibrant language. Marcantonio possesses the rare ability of enticing the reader to turn the page, not only to discover what happens next, but to experience yet another visceral and original turn of phrase. A beautifully vicious read.”
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– Adam Lock – Author of Dinosaur
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“This Ragged, Wastrel Thing is a neon distorted, gritty reflection of humanity and its quest to find belonging – dystopian novels haven’t had it this good since Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid's Tale.”
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– Ross Jeffery – Author of Juniper and Tethered
The Leap of Grebes
Gift of the Gap
SHORT STORIES
'Mechanical Memories'
Moon Park Review
June 2020
'Choice'
Metaphorosis Magazine
January 2020
'The Breakout'
The Cabinet of Heed
June 2019
'Just Married on Brighton Pier'
'Sprite Town'
Collective Realms Magazine
May 2020
'Festival of the New Moon'
Schlock! Magazine
September 2019
'Unmasked'
Metaphorosis Magazine
May 2019
'The Eros Bar'
'Schlock! Magazine
'Talk'
Reflex Fiction
April 2020
'Above the Ginkgo Trees'
Twist in Time Magazine
July 2019
'Plastic Lives'
Exoplanet Magazine
December 2018
'The Artist'
Soft Cartel
X-R-A-Y Magazine
'The Tumbadora'
The Blue Pages
September 2018
'Wild Hairs'
Okay Donkey Magazine
July 2018
'The First Step'
The Cabinet of Heed
May 2018
SHORT STORIES
'Mechanical Memories'
Moon Park Review
June 2020
'Sprite Town'
Collective Realms Magazine
May 2020
'Talk'
Reflex Fiction
April 2020
'Choice'
Metaphorosis Magazine
January 2020
'Festival of the New Moon'
Schlock! Magazine
September 2019
'Above the Ginkgo Trees'
Twist in Time Magazine
July 2019
'The Breakout'
The Cabinet of Heed
June 2019
'Unmasked'
Metaphorosis Magazine
May 2019
'Plastic Lives'
Exoplanet Magazine
December 2018
'Just Married on Brighton Pier'
X-R-A-Y Magazine
October 2018
'The Eros Bar'
'Schlock! Magazine
September 2018
'The Artist'
Soft Cartel
September 2018
'The Tumbadora'
The Blue Pages
September 2018
'Wild Hairs'
Okay Donkey Magazine
July 2018
'The First Step'
The Cabinet of Heed
May 2018
'Last Embers'
The Fiction Pool
March 2018
'One Piercing Eye'
Limnisa Short Story Competition
Summer 2017
'Red Hair and Rain'
Toasted Cheese Literary Journal
June 2017
POEMS
'one star,
three times daily'
Lucent Dreaming
May 2019
'When Summer Came to Brighton'
Ghost City Review
March 2019
ANTHOLOGIES
You Are Not Alone
Storgy Books
July 2020
Story: 'Ghost City'
Shattered Worlds
Kyanite Press
Spring 2020
Story: 'The Walker'
The Colored Lens
Issue 35
Spring 2020
Story: 'Trial of the Six'
Rufo's Dog
Issue 1
February 2020
Story: 'The Smuggler's Daughter'
Storgy Flash Fiction
Storgy Magazine
December 2019
Story: 'Calithea'
2119
Ellipsis Zine
October 2019
Story: 'Mortality'
Love, Pride
Ellipsis Zine
March 2019
Story: 'To Brighton Pier'
Tales of the Forgotten World
Crystal Peake Publisher
November 2018
Story: 'Song of the Redwoods'
Two
Ellipsis Zine
May 2018
Story: 'First Untruths'
Exit Earth
Storgy Books
December 2017
Story: 'The Superhero'
BIO
Tomas Marcantonio is a writer from Brighton, England. He graduated from the University of Sussex with a BA in English Language and Film, and he spent most of his twenties teaching English while travelling and writing.
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Tomas is the author of two travelogues, Gift of the Gap and How Not To Live Your Twenties, as well as the coming-of-age novel The Leap of Grebes. His dystopian trilogy Sonaya Nights is being published by Storgy Books, with first installment This Ragged, Wastrel Thing released on August 1st, 2020.
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Tomas is also the author of numerous short stories, many of which have appeared in literary journals and speculative fiction magazines online and in print. He has placed in several short story and flash fiction competitions, and was the winner of the 'Just Back' travel writing competition in The Telegraph in 2017. In 2020, Tomas was also nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.
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When not scribbling about future worlds or his two beloved seaside cities, Brighton and Busan, Tomas is often writing obscure articles about Korean football. Otherwise, he is most likely getting lost in neon-lit backstreets somewhere, searching for new brands of makgeolli.
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