British writer
Mark Blayney (born 1973 or 1974) is a British writer. He graduated from Royal Holloway in 1995, and spent more than a decade working at the Chartered Institute of Marketing. 
Blayney has published in a range of genres, including novels, short stories and poetry. His first collection of short stories, "Two Kinds of Silence," won the Somerset Maugham Award, making him the first self-published author to win the award. More recently, his novel "Invisibility" won the 2023 New Welsh Writing awards. 
He lives in Cardiff, and has taught writing at Cardiff and Swansea universities. He is a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund.
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