Stark Holborn is a novelist and games writer from Bristol. She is the author of the Factus Sequence, the Triggernometry series, and the groundbreaking digital serial, Nunslinger. Stark’s fiction challenges established genre tropes and has been praised as “splendidly inclusive and innovative sci-fi” by Joanne Harris and “witty and atmospheric” by The Guardian. Stark’s fiction has been nominated for the British Fantasy Awards, the BSFA Awards and the New Media Writing Prize. In games, she has worked on TIGA-award winning projects for the BBC, and is currently Lead Writer on acclaimed detective game, Shadows of Doubt. She recently served as a judge for the 2024 Arthur C. Clarke Award.

‘At Cove Park, I plan to begin work on a new literary historical fiction novel set in the 1850s, encompassing literary theft, working class feminism, gender fluidity in Second French Empire and mushrooms…’