Ellis Scott was born in the UK and grew up in Canada. He has published nine stories in literary journals, including The Iowa Review, Yolk, and The Fiddlehead. His first short story was nominated for a 2020 Pushcart Prize. Night Terminus is his first novel and will be published in February 2026. 

"AIDS was the disease that broke everything. It laid waste not just to individual lives but to our communities, our history, even our sense of possibility itself. Forty years on, writer Ellis Scott has dedicated his heartfelt first novel to the work of repairing and restoring that loss. Reaching across decades and borders, he uses a sequence of haunting close encounters to tell us tales of not only what we still need to grieve for, but also of the tangled threads of connection and courage that we can, if we choose, use to bind ourselves back together again."

Neil Bartlett, author of Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall, Skin Lane, and Mr Clive and Mr Page

“Night Terminus is a harrowing and thoroughly engrossing novel-in-stories about men who endured the AIDS crisis in the 80s and 90s—the survivors, the victims, and the survivors-turned-victims. Scott honors their lives with prose worthy of Sebald, dense and rich, summoning forth the memories and ghosts of that era. A must-read.”

Gerald Brennan, author of Alone on the Moon

"An elegant, beautiful tale of gay encounters, survival and fulfilment in the age of The Great Pandemic, and beyond. This novel glimpses the experiences of many who lived through that era of love and loss." 

Peter Tatchell, human rights campaigner

“In this atmospheric and haunting first novel, Ellis Scott gives limbs and a beating heart to a grief made boundless by the onerous burden of survival. At the centre of Night Terminus is a transient community bound by loss, love, and unflinching grace. A terrific debut!”

Deepa Rajagopalan, author of Peacocks of Instagram