Martin Sketchley
Novelist, Radio/tv/screenwriter
About
Martin Sketchley has over 25 years’ experience across B2B writing, analysis and non-fiction, writing and editing text destined for blue-chip multinationals and organisations such as The British Council and World Bank.
He is also the author of science fiction novels published to acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. His 2010 story ‘Songbirds’ was nominated for a BSFA award, and the sequel, ‘Bloodbirds’, was selected for the Best of British Science Fiction 2021 anthology.
He is also is an experienced workshop facilitator, edits travel guides for German publisher Emons Verlag, and creates videos for his YouTube channel.
More from Martin Sketchley
Martin Sketchley – A Day In The Life
You haven’t written anything creative for six months. Maybe you should stick to expressing your creativity in the garden. No…
Martin Sketchley – Getting Published: What No One Tells You
As he grabbed a handful of crisps he delivered possibly one of the most insightful and concise critiques of my…
Martin Sketchley – The Writing / Life Balance
Over the past thirty years I’ve pretty much jumped from one project to the next. I even took a laptop…
Martin Sketchley – Rejection
The message was, that the project was going no further but the work I’d put in was much appreciated. The…
Martin Sketchley – The Best Advice I Ever Received
A few weeks later, after some furious polishing, I did send David S. Garnett a story. He didn’t buy it,…
What Would You Like To Have Happen?
Martin Sketchley describes the concept of Clean Language and how this powerful tool has influenced his professional and personal life.…
Martin Sketchley – The Writer As Outsider
In my role as Royal Literary Fund fellow, I again find myself an outsider; inhabiting an interesting hinterland as neither…
Martin Sketchley – Life-changing Literature
Joel Lane’s distinctive voice, his unique view of the world and the recognisable settings of his stories, set me on…
Martin Sketchley – Letter To My Younger Self
I was scooting around the country with the band in the back of a van, listening to John Peel and…
Typeface
Martin Sketchley on his enduring love affair with typewriters. Martin Sketchley describes his lifelong love affair with typewriters, and why,…
Shortwave
Martin Sketchley on how he got into writing radio drama. Listening to the radio as a child sparked Martin Sketchley’s…
Martin Sketchley
Novelist, Radio/tv/screenwriter
Website
https://www.youtube.com/@sketchley
Posts
- University of Law, Birmingham, 2023–2023
- University of Law, Birmingham, 2023–2023
- University of Worcester, 2021–2022
- De Montfort University, 2020–2021
- University of Hull, 2021–2021
- Aston University, 2018–2020