Patrick Marlborough is a writer/comedian/musician/drongo living based in Walyalup, Western Australia. Their debut novel Nock Loose drops July 1 2025, via Fremantle Press. They have been published in Vice, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Slate, Gawker, Meanjin, Crikey, Kotaku, The Lifted Brow, Kill Your Darlings, Cordite, Going Down Swinging, and various other forgotten blogs, magazines, and anthologies. The manuscript for their first novel, A Horse Held at Gunpoint, was shortlisted for the Fogarty Literary Award in 2021 and is still looking for a publisher. Nock Loose was shortlisted for the same award in 2023. They are the founder and editor of one of Australia’s biggest substacks, The Yeah Nah Review. They co-author all of their work with the ghost of their bad dog, Buckley, who is solely responsible for any problematic elements therein.
