Adam Farrer is a memoirist, the Editor of the creative nonfiction journal The Real Story and the Writer in Residence for Peel Park, Salford. HIs first essay collection, Cold Fish Soup, won the NorthBound Book Award at the Northern Writers’ Awards and was published by Saraband in August 2022. His second collection, Broken Biscuits and Other Male Failures, will be published by HarperNorth in 2025.

His writing can be found in numerous publications, including The Guardian, Lunate, Hinterland, Flash Nonfiction Funny (Woodhall Press, 2018) Test Signal (Dead Ink Books/Bloomsbury, 2021) and North Country (Saraband, 2022).

He has performed his work at a number of arts and literature festivals, including Sheffield Doc/Fest, the Manchester Literature Festival, the Ilkley Literature Festival and the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

He has been a photo lab technician, a kitchen porter, the voice of an automated phone system, an illustrator, a ceramicist, a musician, a music journalist, and has lectured in creative nonfiction and memoir writing at the University of Lancaster.