Zak Ferguson is an Autistic experimental author, living in Brighton, UK. Zak is also the Co-Founder of the innovative, boundary-pushing Sweat Drenched Press. Zak spends his time at Sweat Drenched Press reading submissions, editing and formatting books for publication and creating book covers & trailers.
Zak's work has garnered much praise by a slew of established authors.
Praise for Zak Ferguson’s work:
"A singular and fascinating writer" - Dennis Cooper, Author of Closer, The Marbled Swarm, and I WISHED.
"Zak Ferguson's writing is like letting an electric virus invade your central nervous system. Nothing is left intact. You are left wiped out and ready to reboot. It's wonderful." – Seb Doubinsky (Author of Missing Signal and THE INVISIBLE)
"Zak Ferguson is screaming. Hear my tell-tale heart, indeed. Life is a rough draft. I still don’t know what the f*** Nietzsche means by eternal return. What I do know: TEXTURESs by Zak Ferguson makes me feel alive." -R.G. Vasicek, author of THE DEFECTORS
“The System Compendium is far and away the most ambitious thing I can remember reading for some time, and certainly one of the most ambitious contemporary books I’ve read in a number of years. Maximalist to the hilt and as expressive as a gob of milky spit in the face of a court-ordered psychiatrist, this is a book to live within and with, an author to keep close.” - Grant Maierhofer (Author of PERIPATET, GAG & CLOG)
"Exact— investigational retching— reminiscent of Apollinaire— or Saint-John Perse. There is spiralling flight— redolent imagery within Zak Ferguson’s writing— poetries constructed in lifeblood—assembled fibres and entangled bear hair— online apps and old static radios— social media and skid marks— slang terminology inside high rise blocks— fashioned overall debris and dormant wood rot— erected tequila slime within antisocial attitudes— taken apart and pieced together by fag ash and slow motion— structured infection combining— composed and created by milky forms— put up and knocked down. Zak Ferguson has written verses full of the shrill cries— the secret codes— and tricks of spit spray and skeletal frames— material worth reading. Poetry as pleasure buttons— the soft tissues— the synthesis of Alcools and Anabasis— muscle." – Shane Jesse Christmass (Author of BELFIE HELL).
"Interiors for ? Mark ii is a passionate experiment of form / structure / narrative. Navigating the interiority of the text, investigating the semiotics of the white-page and black-ink. Ferguson builds this machine with a steady hand. He converts the interiors of the head into the interiors of the text. Mapping this newly formed space with the energy of a dadaist manifesto--employing the techniques of collage and cut-up to create simultaneously entrancing and enigmatic images. All of this revealing the fragility of the book-object. The inclinations of language to break down and distort / the limitations and potentialities of its construction. Interiors for ? Mark ii is an exciting exploration of what can be planted within text, what can be grown, seeded, destroyed." - Mike Corrao, author of Gut Text and Man, Oh Man
In his spare time, Zak enjoys writing, reading and watching films. Zak also enjoys spending time creating experimental videos and expanding the syntax of how his Autism relates to the function of expression and writing, forever delving into the ontological depths of neurodiversity in his work.
