Łukasz Drobnik
Łukasz Drobnik is a Polish fiction writer writing mostly in English, author of genre-bending books, VOSTOK and RIVERINE, as well as shorter prose published in Split Lip Magazine, HAD, Fractured Lit, Atticus Review, Quarterly West, Pithead Chapel, Lighthouse, STORGY, BULL, Foglifter, X‑R‑A‑Y Literary Magazine, and elsewhere. His writing was longlisted for the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He lives in Kraków, Poland.
Below you can find a FULL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS and READ some of his pieces.
email: drobniklukasz [at] gmail [dot] com
A couple goes to a supermarket in Earth’s final days. An unrequited love turns into a lifelong friendship. A bacterium fights against being devoured by a leukocyte. Polish queer people start an insurrection to take over their homeland. A woman gets trapped in a loop of tending to her abusive husband.
RIVERINE is a collection of 25 short-shorts that oscillate between the literary and the speculative. Microscopic or cosmic in scope, encompassing millions of years or just a few seconds, these stories strive to find hope even in the bleakest places.
You can buy RIVERINE in a PAPER format.
Poznań, Poland. The middle of a harsh winter. Weronika is in love with her best friend Wu, who has just told her about his new boyfriend. They spend most evenings drinking away their problems with a bunch of like-minded pub-goers. There’s been a terrorist attack. A girl gets murdered with a war scythe. The reality reveals a whole new layer when the friends mention a place called Vostok City.
On the surface, VOSTOK is a murder story with a literary bent. Dig deeper, and it will reveal itself as science fiction that only pretends to play by the rules of realism.
