CHRIS SIMPSON grew up in Bracknell and Slough. He has worked as a waiter, a cinema projectionist, a shoe salesman, an attendant in an amusement arcade, hiring out construction and demolition tools, a pasty seller, a caretaker for a primary school, a teaching assistant, a tutor and a facilities manager. He was a collaborator on a sketch show and has performed as a stand-up comedian. 

In 2021 he was published alongside Kit de Waal, Kerry Hudson, Philip Ridley and twenty five other writers in MAINSTREAM from Inkandescent Publishers.

In 2020 he had a special mention for the Spread The Word Life Writing Prize 2020.

In 2019 he was nominated for the inaugural Agora and PFD Lost The Plot Prize.

In 2018 he was an awardee of the inaugural Spread The Word's London Writers Award.

He received a First in Creative Writing at BA level from Birkbeck University.

In 2016 he was nominated for the Royal Academy and Pin Drop Short Story Award 2016.

He lives in London and is at work on a novel.

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