Hi, I’m Gavin.
Gavin Turner writes literary speculative fiction where ordinary life begins to behave incorrectly.
His stories take place in recognisable worlds — offices, relationships, landscapes, small towns — but reality in these spaces is unstable. Rules shift. Causality bends. Memory, identity, and consequence do not always align. What begins as familiar fiction gradually reveals itself as something stranger: systems behaving just slightly wrong, but consistently enough to feel inevitable.
His work moves across several forms of speculative storytelling: metaphysical fiction, mythic intrusion narratives, bureaucratic absurdism, and reality-distortion science fiction. Though varied in setting and tone, all his writing explores the same underlying idea: that reality is not fixed, and that meaning often emerges from the places where it breaks.
He is the author of Chopsticks, a novella about stolen music and a curse that limits a musician to a single repeating melody, and A Mouthful of Space Dust, alongside other short fiction published in independent literary and speculative venues.
His work is for readers who enjoy fiction that sits between genres — where literary realism slips into the uncanny, and where the rules of the world are never quite stable.
More recently, I’ve also started creating simple tools and frameworks to help people think more clearly about their work — whether that’s leading a team, navigating change, or resetting when things feel off.
A selection of my published work is listed below.
You can also follow me on Twitter/X (@GTurnerwriter) or on my Gavin Turner Author page on Facebook.
List of Publications
Fiction
Chopsticks – a gothic novella – available on AMAZON
Flat White – Furious Gazelle
Green Strategy – Voidspace
Heist the Buller – Punk Noir
Tatt – RF press
Frimmelstein’s diary – Voidspace
Hummus – RF press
Living on a prayer is no basis for a stable relationship (Collab) – BS LIT
Curbing the appetite (collab) Icebreakers lit
The Agenda – JAKE
Restoration – RF Press
Classroom Embers – RF press
Bad day at Sorallio 6 – Dark Horses
Baptism – Punk Noir
Grover beach (collab) – Icebreakers lit
Patio Friends – Voidspace
Mr Humbolt – RF press
Light the fire – Trash Cat lit
Drowning in Sin – Punk Noir press
Poetry
Slow return to dust – RF press
Memories of you – Chamber magazine
She’s waving marigolds – RF press
Meadow Clocks – Boats against the current
Wee Gee – Bombfire
Anne of Cleves, the best of wives – Wives anthology
Becoming a better kind of ghost – RF press
Opening night – RF press
The promise of rain – RF press
