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Samuel Best is a writer based in Glasgow. His début novel, Shop Front, is published by Fledgling Press and his novelette, Hunger, was released in September 2023.
         Samuel founded and edited Octavius, a literary magazine which featured over 150 writers and published three sell-out print collections between 2011 and 2016.
         During the 2020 Covid lockdown he set up Aloe, a literary magazine which raised money for UK and Irish healthcare workers.
         Samuel's short stories have been published in a wide variety of magazines and he has performed at spoken word nights and book festivals across Scotland.
         When he is not writing, he is an English teacher with a taste for Shakespeare and Gothic literature.