Education
University of Warwick.
University of Warwick.
Born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1968 he did a journalistic apprenticeship on the Times of India in New Delhi before studying Philosophy and Psychology (PPP) at Wadham College, Oxford. On graduating he spent a year in New York City studying jazz theory and technique, returning to the United Kingdom to take an Master of Arts in Philosophy and Literature at the University of Warwick. He has also published a short story collection Soft Apocalypse – Twelve Tales from the Turn of the Millennium (2004: Au Diable Vauvert).
His short fiction has appeared in collections published by Penguin Books, the New English Library and the International Cooperation Administration. When it was published in France in 2002, Habitus was judged as in the top five foreign novels of that year"s Rentrée Literaire.
In 2002 one of Flint"s stories (The Nuclear Train) was filmed for Channel 4 by the director Dan Saul. Flint also scripted the film installation Little Earth and co-wrote "Like an Octogenarian" with Sebastian Doggart for A&East Network"s 2006 show 15 Films About Madonna.
Between 2004 and 2007 he ran the Film Tent at the Portuguese Eliot Festival, which featured films and talks from filmmakers including Mike Figgis and Kevin Allen (actor)
In December 2006, Flint took a full-time position as Arts and Features editor (Digital) at the Telegraph Media Group. In 2007 he oversaw the set up and launch of Telegraph Earth and was subsequently promoted to Head of Digital Development (Editorial).
His latest novel, Midland, is due to be published by Unbound in 2016.
Of math prodigies and canine cosmonauts, by David Hudson, Salon.com, 26 October 1998
A New Gestalt, by Claude Lalumière, January Magazine
The Art of Apocalypse, by Peter Carty, Independent newspaper, 24 September 2004
Get with the program, by Alfred Hickling, Guardian newspaper, 18 October 2004
Playing with God"s golfballs, by Alastair Sooke, Telegraph newspaper, 21 November 2004.