Dan Holloway is a performance poet, novelist and journalist. In 2010 he won the international spoken word event Literary Death Match and in 2011 his novel The Company of Fellows was voted favorite Oxford novel by readers of the world famous Blackwell's bookstore. He is the host of the spoken word show The New Libertines which has toured festivals across the UK for the past three years and writes about avant garde literature and self-publishing across the internet including regular contributions to the Guardian Books Blog.