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Bruno Lowagie lives and works in Ghent, Belgium. In a previous life, he was an open-source developer and entrepreneur. After selling his business, he started a career as an author. Initially writing for Dutch and Flemish audiences, he began translating his work into English in 2024.

Books, anthologies, magazines

Bruno published several books, including two "iText in Action" books for Manning Publications, and his self-published non-fiction books "Entreprenerd" and "Nijlpaard voor Kerstmis". Several of his short stories are published in anthologies released by publishers such as Godijn Publishing, LetterRijn, Poespa Producties. His stories also feature in magazines such as Weirdo's, Portulaan, Spaceports & Spidersilk, and so on. Read more...

Awards

Bruno won several business awards, such as the Belgian edition of Deloitte's Technology Fast50, a JavaOne Rockstar Award, and the BelCham Entrepreneurship Awards. He also won first prizes in writing contests, such as the Gorcumse Literatuurprijs (2019, Gorinchem, The Netherlands), the Gerard Vermeerschprijs (2022, Ypres, Belgium), and the Thé Tjong-Khing schrijfwedstrijd (2023, Haarlem, The Nederlands). Read more...

Short Story Management System (SSMS)

Bruno Lowagie created Folio, an SSMS to keep track of his stories and submissions. It's similar to The Grinder, but it also allows him to store the content of his stories as a Word document, and to share information with third parties about:

• his publications
• his contest results
• first prizes in contests

In Folio, every title is attributed a unique identification code consisting of three parts:

• Two characters indicating the language: in my case, either EN or NL, which are the ISO 639 codes for English and Dutch.
• A two-digit number referring to a year: starting with 19 (referring to 2019), this number indicates in which year the story was written. I have some older stories too, but I'm not always sure in which year they were written.
• A three-digit number to make the code unique: starting in 2024, this number indicates the order in which the story was written. For example, EN24-015 is more a recent story than EN24-002. The numbers before 2024 are more or less random.

These numbers are used to identify stories in the overview, especially where the title is obfuscated.