Nick Holdstock

NICK HOLDSTOCK is an award-winning writer of fiction and non-fiction. He is the author of two novels, The Casualties (St Martins, 2015) and Quarantine (Swift, 2022), and a short story collection, The False River (Unthank, 2019). He has written three non-fiction books about China: The Tree That Bleeds(Luath, 2012), Chasing the Chinese Dream (IB Tauris, 2017) and China’s Forgotten People (Bloomsbury, 2019).

His reviews and journalism have appeared in the Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books, the Financial TimesFrieze and Apollo. He has been the recipient of a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship and won the Willesden Herald Short Story Competition.

He holds an MA in Creative Writing and was Royal Literary Fellow at Newcastle University. He has extensive experience as a copy editor and proof-reader.

  • Areas of expertise: literary fiction (novels & short stories), non-fiction
    (memoir, travel, reportage, narrative non-fiction; history & politics; essays &
    journalism)
  • Location: Edinburgh & Glasgow
  • Possible meeting places: Söderberg or National Library of Scotland
    Nick’s website; Nick on Twitter