Adam Boggon is a Scottish doctor and sometime writer based in London.
His work has been published by The Crimson, The Missouri Review, Pangyrus, Singletrack, The Great Outdoors, Like The Wind, Harvard Public Health and elsewhere. Adam won the Mountaineering Scotland mountain writing competition, was a Fulbright scholar at Harvard University, and shortlisted for the Lancet Wakley, Perkoff and Pushcart prizes, the John Byrne award, and for ‘Best Author’ by Singletrack.
His published nonfiction spans mountain biking and mental illness, pilgrimage and protest, Norse saga and running through snow. Mishaps with hovercraft, antique axes, electrocution and a brake-less taxi sit by accounts of medical practice across Scotland, Tanzania, Uganda, The Gambia and London – night shifts, psychiatric on-call, a pandemic intensive care unit and the disorderly rollout of an early COVID vaccination centre.
You can contact him at a.d.boggon@gmail.com or subscribe for new writing at the bottom of the page.
The Correct Distance
Having a rough time at work in The Gambia
Shortlisted for the John Byrne Award
Shock
Being electrocuted and falling out of a tree in Malawi – for Shorts
The Mountains Inside
On the inadvisability of carrying a bicycle over a mountain – for Rohan
Thump
Crashing the Cairneyhill Scout hovercraft – for Rohan
Wild Things Are
Hill racing in Scotland with Lao Tzu and Jay-Z – for Northwords Now
Scorpion, Snail: Zanzibar
Evading schistosomiasis and scorpions in Pemba – for The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Saga of Magnus
A mountain bike journey through Orkney strays into Norse saga, Arctic exploration, and the tackling of armed men – for Singletrack
Shortlisted for Singletrack ‘Best Author’ Award
Confusion in East Africa
A ramshackle safari – for The Great Outdoors
Down to the River
Spectacles of mounting ludicrousness have always appealed to me. The water-borne adventure is a medium conducive to both liberation and farce. I’ve discovered a successful recipe: assemble an unlikely crew, select a river at the edge of your ability to negotiate, bring a novelty item, and expect to get wet – for The Great Outdoors
