Bournemouth University · Bloomsbury · Emmy-Nominated
Bradford
Gyori
Novelist, television writer, and academic
Fiction, research, and narrative systems
exploring how stories shape perception and meaning.
Bournemouth University · Bloomsbury · Emmy-Nominated
Novelist, television writer, and academic
Fiction, research, and narrative systems
exploring how stories shape perception and meaning.
21st Century Ghost Stories Vol III · 2024
Historical Writers’ Association · 2022
Mystery Tribune
Flash Fiction
Award-winning short fiction. Ghost Story Award winner. Bridport Prize longlisted. Published across the US, UK, and internationally.
View All 14 Stories →The analytical and the imagined. A Bloomsbury handbook on interactive narrative design, and a debut literary novel in submission.
Bradford Gyori has written for the screen, the stage, and the page, creating work that has reached millions of people around the world.
His television career took him from early work in Los Angeles to head writer of Talk Soup on E!, one of the network’s signature programmes. His credits span FX, MTV, VH1 and E!, and over those years he collaborated with many of the industry’s most admired performers. He produced an audio play with Carrie Coon in a lead role, and directed a rehearsed reading of his play Desolation Angels at Steppenwolf Theatre.
That career began remarkably early. At 17, he wrote and directed his first television comedy sketch, which aired multiple times on KSAZ-TV (Channel 10) in his hometown of Phoenix, Arizona. Around the same time he also wrote and published a parody of his school newspaper.
“Peer through Gyori’s brilliant, kaleidoscopic magic realism, and you’ll be treated to his unique and riveting take on the age-old story of a young person on a quest.”
Paul Guernsey, The Ghost Story JournalToday he is Principal Academic in Digital Storytelling at Bournemouth University, leading the MA in Creative Writing and Publishing. He serves as Editor in Chief of the Bournemouth Journal, the Writing Prize Anthologies, and the Community Outreach Anthologies.
He writes every morning before the day begins.
Head writer of Talk Soup on E!. Four Emmy nominations. A decade in the writer’s room that now shapes everything he puts on the page.
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On set and behind the scenes during Bradford’s television years in Los Angeles
Narrative as construction. Narrative as design. Narrative as experience. A connected body of thinking about rhetoric, authorship, audience, and the systems that shape how stories are told and received.
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Young offenders. Children in care. BIPoC writers. People living with dementia. Bradford leads community initiatives that bring the craft of digital narrative to people who rarely get to tell their own stories.
These projects have run continuously since 2017 — workshops, showcases, and publications that give voice to communities outside the mainstream of literary culture.
Bradford Gyori’s talks draw on decades of experience across television production, narrative research, and teaching interactive media in higher education.
How writers and creative teams can move from traditional linear storytelling toward interactive narrative design.
Practical methods for organising creative teams across disciplines to build complex interactive storytelling projects.
How literary craft applies to game design, interactive fiction, and immersive experience.
A decade of outreach work — how narrative can be a tool for empowerment and social change.
From the writer’s room to the page to the screen — how stories change shape across forms.
How writers can navigate and thrive in the changing landscape of storytelling.
Whether you're a publisher, festival organiser, fellow researcher, or reader, Bradford welcomes conversation.
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