PATRICK TEN BRINK
Patrick lives and works in Brussels, Belgium, his day job dedicated to protecting the environment, his spare time to writing poetry, fiction and art reviews. He grew up in Germany, Australia, Japan and England, and studied Physics and Philosophy in the UK, French language and civilisation in France and Mexican literature of the 20th century in Mexico. His work has appeared in Beyond Words, The Brussels Review, 101 Words, Coffin Bell, Night Picnic Press, Dreamers Creative Writing, Maya’s Micros, Honeyguide Literary Magazine, and his poetry collection, Urban Enigmas, will come out in July 2025, produced by Dipity Press. His art reviews appear regularly in Travel Tomorrow. 
URBAN ENIGMAS
Urban Enigmas, Patrick ten Brink’s latest poetry collection from Dipity Press, finds beauty and meaning in the overlooked fragments of Brussels. From waste management to half-apples on pavements, these poems capture the city’s mystery and wonder. Hear the author read on the Hummingbird Blink podcast, Episode 141.
Short Bio
Patrick’s work has appeared in Beyond Words, The Brussels Review, 101 Words, Coffin Bell, Night Picnic Press, Dreamers Creative Writing, Maya’s Micros, Honeyguide Literary Magazine, and his poetry collection, Urban Enigmas, will come out in July 2025, produced by Dipity Press. His art reviews appear regularly in Travel Tomorrow. The novel he is currently hunting for an agent for – The Death and Life of Amelia Borgiotti, a ghost story set in 17th-century Rome, was longlisted in the 2021 Exeter Novel Prize and Fiction Factory first chapter competition (2024).
His WiP includes a YA speculative fiction trilogy – The Tides – and a seventh-century fantasy novel set in Japan – Bird Man. He is also working on a series of poems in homage to a range of his favourite poets. And a new adventure: he is exploring parallel universes through a series of short stories, the first of which, Pachinko Clues 7117, has just been penned and polished and seeking a home. Hopefully, good news soon.
SHORT STORIES
• The Word Thief (The Brussels Review, Summer Issue 4, June 2025 & Hyacinth Review, December 2025)
• The Taken (in Betrayal, edited by Free Spirit)
• Mycelium Heartbeat (The Brussels Review, Issue 4, June 2025)
• The Man with Two Faces (The Brussels Review, Issue 4, June 2025)
• My Secret Condition (The Brussels Review, Issue 1)
• Amelia Borgiotti (Coffin Bell and will be in Drop Dead Gorgeous’ Daughters of Dread July 2025)
• The Carp and the Magpie (Night Picnic Press, Vol 2, Issue 3)
FLASH AND MICRO-FICTION
The Double Bass Player on Bus 71 (Beyond Words, Issue 50, September 2024)
• My Secret (Beyond Words – Summer 2023)
• Ersatz (101 Words)
POETRY
• Chapbook: Urban Enigmas (Dipity Press, July 2025)
• Iguana (Honeyguide literary magazine, Issue 8, June 2024)
• Koyasan Cemetery (Maya’s Micros Ed. 12 – The Closed Eye Open)
• Zen Garden, Kyoto (Dreamers Creative Writing 2018 Haiku Competition) and (Dreamers Year 1 Anthology) Anthologies
The Circle, A Brussels Anthology, comprising works of 34 authors from 19 countries, published by Harvard Square Editions. Patrick ten Brink the editor.
Novels: Work in Progress (WiP)
The Death and Life of Amelia Borgiotti. Longlisted for the Fiction Factory first chapter competition, August 2024. https://www.creativewritingmatters.co.uk/2021-exeter-novel-prize.html. I’m current seeking agent representation.
CREATIVE NONFICTION - ART REVIEWS, TRAVEL WRITING ET AL.
Patrick regularly publishes art reviews and the occasional travel writing piece, generally focusing on architecture or cemeteries and ther ea first music review For the articles see his Author Page Travel Tomorrow. Three examples to tempt you there:
Chiharu Shiota exhibition in Paris truly makes the soul tremble