Featured Writer: HP Tinker

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If HP Tinker didn't exist, you'd have to make him up. An "hilarious deadpan surrealist," he not only has been compared to this writer and that writer, but his writing has been described as "unusual, arresting, smart and very funny." 3:AM's resident genius, he is as influenced as much by Woody Allen, Dr Seuss and Morrissey as he is by William Burroughs and Joe Orton. As one of the brave ones — and one of Britain's most shameless writers — HP Tinker has been peddling his own brand of surrealism for years now, in stories littered with pop cultural references where you are likely to meet Dorothy Parker, Tom Paulin, Paul Gaugain as you are Dean Martin and Morrissey.

If you haven't, as we have, been stalking HP Tinker across cyberspace — in Pulp.net, Laura Hird's Showcase and in Scarecrow — you can read two stories here on Dogmatika [previously only available in Ambit magazine]. With some of HP Tinker's ingenious stories to look forward to in his debut collection, pull up a stool to the Swank Bisexual Wine Bar of Modernity and partake of the wares. Careful not to spill, now.

On Dogmatika:
My Hitler Youth
Buddy Buried Deeply