Pete Kowalczyk is an award-winning writer and designer from the north of England, with Polish and Ukrainian roots, living in Epping Forest. His writing appears in the Guardian, the European Review of Books, and Tolka among others, and has been supported by the Jerzy Peterkiewicz Foundation. He was a London Library Emerging Writer (2025–26), selected for the Granta Memoir Writing programme, and his first book, Time is a Border (forthcoming), was shortlisted for the 2023 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize.
Alongside writing for CNN, Dazed, Vice, Latterly, the Nikkei, and McGraw Hill, Pete has worked across design and emerging technology for clients such as GDS, BBC, Deliveroo, NHS, Co-op, GOV.UK, Bulb, OVO, Vanguard, Cinch, Barnardo’s, and the Open University. He’s been named one of the UK’s top 10 conversational AI practitioners (2026) and helped design C2PA Content Credentials — one of Time magazine’s Best Inventions of 2024. He’s helped design agentic government services for GDS, ethical recommender systems for the BBC, and more accessible point-of-care NHS services and legal processes for the Co-op (featured in Creative Review). He holds a Physics BSc (Hons) from the University of Manchester, and has developed his practice through a poetry semester at Goldsmiths, the Poetry Society workshops, and journalism collaborations with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
He’s spoken and appeared across CNN Connect the World, BBC Design Days, Figma meetups, Content Teatime, Convers(AI)tions, Day by Day and Copy Cats podcasts, Deleted Scenes Soho, Tolka Dublin, and London Library events, with upcoming appearances including Tempo at the Barbican.
You can reach him on Linkedin.
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