Nicholas Hogg is an award-winning author, poet, and short shory writer.

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Show Me the Sky has been nominated for the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

“An assured and gripping debut.” — Ian MacMillan, The Verb, BBC Radio 3

“His subtle and clever novel weaves together five different narrative strands...plotted so artfully.” — The Big Issue

“Hogg performs a full range of literary circus feats... leading his reader on an exotic journey of the myriad forms and frailties of existence, highlighted by the power of books to change lives.” — Adelaide Advertiser

“Like a four-part harmony, Hogg balances these voices, strengthening the book's message of staying true to one's roots... His swift change in style really shines.” — The Sunday Herald

Show Me the Sky is available from amazon.co.uk, play.com, Waterstone's, Blackwell, WHSmith and other retailers in the UK, and amazon.com and other retailers in the US, Australia and New Zealand.

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From nearly 7,000 fiction entries, Happy Birthday, a tale of stealing cars in Leicester, has been chosen by Ali Smith for a runners up award in the 2009 Bridport Prize.

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Jerusalem, a short story following a couple's trip to the Holy Lands, follows previous contributors such as TS Eliot, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and William Wordsworth into the December 2009/January 2010 issue of The London Magazine.

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How the Tiger Got Its Stripes, a short story blending Vietnamese fable and modern day California, has won the Editor's Choice Award in the 2009 Raymond Carver Short Story Contest.

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Nicholas Hogg choosing the winners of the Ilkley Literature Festival ‘Poetry and Short Story’ competition for young writers, as well as a reading of his own short story, Ever After:

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UPCOMING EVENTS :

Details of leading a creative writing course in France next summer, and an appearance at the York Literature Festival to be posted shortly.