George Oliver Kowalik
@kowalikgeorge.bsky.social
Writer & researcher. Author of 'Hybrid Novels: Post-postmodernism, Sincerity, and Race at the Turn of the 21st Century' (Routledge). Currently teaching at Glasgow Caledonian University London.
a couple of big ones bought in Tokyo before they’re out in the UK 😍
November 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM
a couple of big ones bought in Tokyo before they’re out in the UK 😍
My book came out on Friday!
Hybrid Novels has chapters on Percival Everett, Jonathan Franzen, Zadie Smith & David Foster Wallace, before turning to Sheila Heti, Ben Lerner, Teju Cole & Tao Lin.
c20/c21 scholars/students… order in to your libraries!
www.routledge.com/Hybrid-Novel...
Hybrid Novels has chapters on Percival Everett, Jonathan Franzen, Zadie Smith & David Foster Wallace, before turning to Sheila Heti, Ben Lerner, Teju Cole & Tao Lin.
c20/c21 scholars/students… order in to your libraries!
www.routledge.com/Hybrid-Novel...
October 6, 2025 at 12:54 PM
My book came out on Friday!
Hybrid Novels has chapters on Percival Everett, Jonathan Franzen, Zadie Smith & David Foster Wallace, before turning to Sheila Heti, Ben Lerner, Teju Cole & Tao Lin.
c20/c21 scholars/students… order in to your libraries!
www.routledge.com/Hybrid-Novel...
Hybrid Novels has chapters on Percival Everett, Jonathan Franzen, Zadie Smith & David Foster Wallace, before turning to Sheila Heti, Ben Lerner, Teju Cole & Tao Lin.
c20/c21 scholars/students… order in to your libraries!
www.routledge.com/Hybrid-Novel...
“Impeded” - feat. junior football firms, British pub culture, organised fights, directionless male youth ✍️
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September 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
“Impeded” - feat. junior football firms, British pub culture, organised fights, directionless male youth ✍️
shop.thebrusselsreview.com/products/tbr...
shop.thebrusselsreview.com/products/tbr...
My book is out a week today!
Amazon: www.amazon.co.uk/Hybrid-Novel...
Bookshop: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/hybr...
Waterstones: www.waterstones.com/book/hybrid-...
Amazon: www.amazon.co.uk/Hybrid-Novel...
Bookshop: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/hybr...
Waterstones: www.waterstones.com/book/hybrid-...
September 26, 2025 at 10:37 AM
My book is out a week today!
Amazon: www.amazon.co.uk/Hybrid-Novel...
Bookshop: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/hybr...
Waterstones: www.waterstones.com/book/hybrid-...
Amazon: www.amazon.co.uk/Hybrid-Novel...
Bookshop: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/hybr...
Waterstones: www.waterstones.com/book/hybrid-...
I have a short story in The Brussels Review’s new “Blanc” anthology, which is available now: shop.thebrusselsreview.com
A couple of big influences on ‘Impeded’ were Melville’s “Billy Budd” and Bill Buford’s ‘Among the Thugs’
A couple of big influences on ‘Impeded’ were Melville’s “Billy Budd” and Bill Buford’s ‘Among the Thugs’
August 22, 2025 at 9:09 AM
I have a short story in The Brussels Review’s new “Blanc” anthology, which is available now: shop.thebrusselsreview.com
A couple of big influences on ‘Impeded’ were Melville’s “Billy Budd” and Bill Buford’s ‘Among the Thugs’
A couple of big influences on ‘Impeded’ were Melville’s “Billy Budd” and Bill Buford’s ‘Among the Thugs’
‘The Peel’ was included in this anthology after being shortlisted for the MTP 2025 Short Story Competition. It was originally published last year: www.sanspress.com/the-archive-...
August 17, 2025 at 10:54 AM
‘The Peel’ was included in this anthology after being shortlisted for the MTP 2025 Short Story Competition. It was originally published last year: www.sanspress.com/the-archive-...
My 2023 journal article on post-postmodernism (part of my PhD research, now part of my forthcoming first book) won an award!
My thanks to ‘Humanities’ 🙏
My thanks to ‘Humanities’ 🙏
July 30, 2025 at 9:07 AM
My 2023 journal article on post-postmodernism (part of my PhD research, now part of my forthcoming first book) won an award!
My thanks to ‘Humanities’ 🙏
My thanks to ‘Humanities’ 🙏
Excited to have my story ‘The Peel’ shortlisted for the MTP 2025 Short Story Competition.
It’ll be appearing in a print anthology next month!
It’ll be appearing in a print anthology next month!
July 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Excited to have my story ‘The Peel’ shortlisted for the MTP 2025 Short Story Competition.
It’ll be appearing in a print anthology next month!
It’ll be appearing in a print anthology next month!
At the British Library this evening!
June 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
At the British Library this evening!
I have a new story about Polishness and the Life in the UK Test in the new issue of Reverie Magazine.
I wrote it before this week’s government White Paper. I for one might fuck off outta this country if we keep pretending that our economy and society doesn’t/hasn’t ALWAYS relied on immigrants.
I wrote it before this week’s government White Paper. I for one might fuck off outta this country if we keep pretending that our economy and society doesn’t/hasn’t ALWAYS relied on immigrants.
May 16, 2025 at 8:47 AM
I have a new story about Polishness and the Life in the UK Test in the new issue of Reverie Magazine.
I wrote it before this week’s government White Paper. I for one might fuck off outta this country if we keep pretending that our economy and society doesn’t/hasn’t ALWAYS relied on immigrants.
I wrote it before this week’s government White Paper. I for one might fuck off outta this country if we keep pretending that our economy and society doesn’t/hasn’t ALWAYS relied on immigrants.
My story ‘Hinterland’ - a speculative fiction about dreams, coffee shops, and city life - is in the new issue of The Interpreter’s House.
theinterpretershouse.org/current-issue
theinterpretershouse.org/current-issue
May 14, 2025 at 12:07 PM
My story ‘Hinterland’ - a speculative fiction about dreams, coffee shops, and city life - is in the new issue of The Interpreter’s House.
theinterpretershouse.org/current-issue
theinterpretershouse.org/current-issue
I have a new story in the latest issue of Freshwater Literary Journal!
Available online here: issuu.com/freshwaterli....
Available online here: issuu.com/freshwaterli....
May 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I have a new story in the latest issue of Freshwater Literary Journal!
Available online here: issuu.com/freshwaterli....
Available online here: issuu.com/freshwaterli....
Book = done ✅
May 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Book = done ✅
I have a book review in the new issue of The Journal of David Foster Wallace Studies!
April 15, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I have a book review in the new issue of The Journal of David Foster Wallace Studies!
Gonna make a more concerted effort to use this platform!
I have a couple more stories coming out in print in 🇺🇸 in the next few months.
A long one about a band on tour hit by scandal… and a flash fiction about grief, football, VAR, and playing with a high press.
I have a couple more stories coming out in print in 🇺🇸 in the next few months.
A long one about a band on tour hit by scandal… and a flash fiction about grief, football, VAR, and playing with a high press.
March 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Gonna make a more concerted effort to use this platform!
I have a couple more stories coming out in print in 🇺🇸 in the next few months.
A long one about a band on tour hit by scandal… and a flash fiction about grief, football, VAR, and playing with a high press.
I have a couple more stories coming out in print in 🇺🇸 in the next few months.
A long one about a band on tour hit by scandal… and a flash fiction about grief, football, VAR, and playing with a high press.
A new story of mine will appear in Twenty-two Twenty-eight a week on Weds!
February 24, 2024 at 6:50 PM
A new story of mine will appear in Twenty-two Twenty-eight a week on Weds!
Looking forward to my story ‘My Unimaginary Friend’ - pubbed last year in print - being republished by Literally Stories (online) in March!
January 14, 2024 at 8:57 PM
Looking forward to my story ‘My Unimaginary Friend’ - pubbed last year in print - being republished by Literally Stories (online) in March!
Was glad to have some writing published last year…
Links to everything: georgeoliverkowalik.wordpress.com
Links to everything: georgeoliverkowalik.wordpress.com
January 8, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Was glad to have some writing published last year…
Links to everything: georgeoliverkowalik.wordpress.com
Links to everything: georgeoliverkowalik.wordpress.com
Seeing as we’re doing 2024 now…
January 8, 2024 at 11:30 AM
Seeing as we’re doing 2024 now…
At a preview screening last night (with Q&A) of Cord Jefferson’s adaptation of Everett’s ‘Erasure’: ‘American Fiction’
November 17, 2023 at 10:57 AM
At a preview screening last night (with Q&A) of Cord Jefferson’s adaptation of Everett’s ‘Erasure’: ‘American Fiction’