Andrew Blackman

June 2010: Scheduled to take part in the Holloway Arts Festival

21 April 2010: Scheduled to speak at Highgate Library with fellow Legend Press author Mark Piggott

5 March 2010: Spoke to creative writing students at the University of Hertfordshire about becoming a published author

10 December 2009: Spoke about “On the Holloway Road” at Blackwell’s Bookshop on the Holloway Road

26 November 2009: Spoke about “On the Holloway Road” at the Big Green Bookshop in Wood Green

18 November 2009: Spoke at Middlesex University’s “Writer for Lunch” programme

November 2009: “On the Holloway Road” published as an eBook

31 October 2009: Signed copies of On the Holloway Road in Newbury’s Kennet Shopping Centre

29 October 2009: Spoke at the Luke Bitmead Writer’s Bursary award ceremony in London

27 September 2009: Interviewed by Helen J Beal

20 August 2009: Spoke about my experience of the publishing industry at the Society of Young Publishers in Oxford

July 2009: New essay published in issue 17 of US literary magazine Post Road.

30 July 2009: Met with the North London Reading Group, who had selected On the Holloway Road as their book of the month.

24 July 2009: Presented the London Fringe Short Fiction Award to Alex Burger at the Old Operating Theatre near London Bridge

2 July 2009: Press launch event for London Bridge Festival, for which I judged the short story contest.

1 July 2009: Spoke at Blackwell’s on the Holloway Road as part of the Holloway Arts Festival.

June 2009: New essay published in the book Quarter Passed: Collected Works from Twentysomethings Around the World.

June 2009: Was invited to judge the short story contest for the London Bridge Festival.

23 June 2009: Spoke at Richmond Library as part of the Story of London festival.

16 June 2009: Spoke at Islington North Library as part of the Story of London festival.

20 May 2009: Spoke about On the Holloway Road and signed copies in an event at Hornsey Library.

25 April 2009: Guest speaker at the Jack Kerouac Literary Group in New York City.

24 April 2009: Signed copies of my book at the Columbia Alumni Book Fair in New York City.

10 April 2009: On the Holloway Road reviewed in the Daily Mail

8 April 2009: On the Holloway Road mentioned in Time Out “Battle of the Books” feature

26 March 2009: Profile piece about me in the Kentish Times

March-April 2009: On the Holloway Road displayed front-of-house in all London Borders and Books Etc stores as part of the 3 for 2 new fiction promotion.

16 March 2009: On the Holloway Road at #4 on the bestseller list at Prospero’s Books

5 March 2009: Profile piece in the Islington Gazette

3 March 2009: Radio interview on BBC Oxford with Jo Thoenes

28 February 2009: On the Holloway Road appears in bookshops

26 February 2009: Launch party for On the Holloway Road at the fabulous Phoenix Artist Club

26 February 2009: On the Holloway Road written up in the Oxford Times “Books Choice” column

20 February 2009: Profile story about me in the Haringey Independent

17 February 2009: Gave a speech at Leicester University

January 2009: My short story Safety published in Carillon magazine

December 2008: My short story Night Bus published in Issue 13 of Smoke

29 August 2008: On the Holloway Road shortlisted for the Dundee International Book Prize

12 August 2008: Article about me in the Haringey Independent

2 August 2008: Article about me and the prize in the Barnet Times

25 July 2008: On the Holloway Road wins the Luke Bitmead Writers’ Bursary

9 June 2008: On the Holloway Road wins the Novel Beginnings First Chapter Contest

10 December 2007: My short story Postcards from a Previous Life published in the short story collection Naked Thighs and Cotton Frocks and other stories (Leaf Books)

4 October 2007: Commended in the Leaf Books 2007 Short Story Competition for my short story Postcards from a Previous Life

January 2006: Left the Wall Street Journal and moved back to London

July 2005: My prize-winning essay What is the Soul of Socialism? published in Monthly Review Vol 57 No 3

2004: Winner of the Daniel Singer Millennium Prize

June 2003: Hired by the Wall Street Journal, where I would write several hundred bylined articles over the next few years