Adam Porkolab

My sonnet “Kindling” received a Laureates’ Choice award in the 2026 Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest. The winning sonnets can be read on the contest’s website. sonnetcontest.org/2026-winners/ #sonnet

“The Indelible Hand” will appear in The Detective and the Ghost-Finder (Belanger Books, ed. John Linwood Grant): Holmes and Carnacki on one case. A widow receives letters in her dead husband’s hand, and one reveals what no living person knew. adamporkolab.com/en/stories/...

On October 19, the Horror Writers Association upgraded my membership from Affiliate to Active, its level for professional writers. According to the HWA's current member directory, I'm its only member based in Hungary, and to my knowledge the first Hungarian to become an Active member.

“Cutmark” is out in Sinister Systems from the Denver Horror Collective. Raw recordings of a body-art project from 2274 reach, two centuries later, a species whose bodies, faith and language are built on healing. denverhorror.com/2026/05/26/...

My story “Greetings from Lake Fenwick” is out now on Tales to Terrify, episode 768. Thank you for having me, and many thanks to Maxwell Zener for the wonderful reading!

My story “The Silence of the Kavarn” is in Bullet Points 15, free to read online. Thank you for having me, delighted to be in such great company!

“Until Further Noise” will appear in the December issue of Utopia Science Fiction. Humanity’s ten-thousand-year license for music expires, and a two-week-old punk band gets one night to win it back. adamporkolab.com/en/stories/...

“The Silence of the Kavarn” is now free to read in Bullet Points, Volume 15: Costs of War. Seventeen soldiers deep in enemy territory, and a sacred instrument gone silent with its master.

My story GREETINGS FROM LAKE FENWICK airs this Friday on @talestoterrify.bsky.social, episode 768.

My website has a new look. Every published and forthcoming story, poem and book is in one place, in English and Hungarian.

I'm a finalist in the Writers of the Future Contest, Q3 2026. This quarter's three winners were chosen from eight finalists. https://writersofthefuture.com/writers-of-the-future-3rd-quarter-winners-announced-for-volume-43/ #WritersOfTheFuture

THE MELCHIZEDEK VARIANT by @adamporkolab.com A psychological sci-fi thriller (long novelette) reminiscent of the themes of Asimov. Super problematic female mad scientist villain protagonist.