Dan Holloway

Dan Holloway is a novelist, journalist, performance poet and mental health activist.

Dan is the only person to win the Creative Thinking (2016) and Intelligence (2000) World Championships, and is a regular speaker on all things creative as well as an interdisciplinary lecturer (in 2016 he spoke at the Ashmolean Museum on how Puritan marriage sermons can enhance our understanding of Aphex Twin and in 2015 he spoke at Oxford's Mathematical Institute on the relation between mathematical surfaces and mediaeval torture instruments).

Dan is a regular performer around the UK, in 2016 performing poetry at the Royal Albert Hall and a one man performance fairy tale commissioned by Oxford Playhouse. He hosts a monthly poetry night at Waterstones in Oxford.

Since 2007 Dan has been working with the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Mind and other organizations to campaign on issues of debt and mental health. Most recently, he spoke at the launch of a major report on the subject by the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute. In 2016 he gave the closing remarks to the Oxford University Disability Lecture in the form of a performance poem, and in 2017 he gave the University Mental Health Awareness Day on the subject "The Consolation of Solitary Sports".

In his spare time Dan runs ultramarathons, though as his photo suggests, he is also passionate about food.