Brick Lane Bookshop Podcast: Recent Episodes
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The BLB Podcast interrogates and celebrates the short story form. On each episode we invite a writer to read from one of their stories, talk about their work, writing and editing processes, how they got published, and what they’re reading. Hosted by Kate Ellis and Peter J. Coles.
We spoke to K . Lockwood Jefford about winning the 2023 Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize, her story 'Kissing in Berlin', how she edits and what she's reading.
Show notes:
Cynan Jones, Laurie Lee, Dylan Thomas, Irenosen Okojie, Eley Williams, Sara Baume, Chris Power, Josephine Rowe, Persephone Book of Short Stories, Celine and Julie Go Boating
Podcast music is by Andrew Everitt
The BLB Podcast is a new project from Brick Lane Bookshop created to celebrate and interrogate the short story form. For each episode, we invite a writer to read from one of their stories, discuss their writing and editing processes, their route to publication and what they’re reading.
In the fifth episode of season two, co-hosts Kate Ellis and Peter J. Coles talk to Eley Williams about her short story collection, Attrib. and Other Stories
The BLB Podcast is a new project from Brick Lane Bookshop created to celebrate and interrogate the short story form. For each episode, we invite a writer to read from one of their stories, discuss their writing and editing processes, their route to publication and what they’re reading.
In the fourth episode of season two, co-hosts Kate Ellis and Peter J. Coles talk to Jess Walter about his latest short story collection, The Angel of Rome
Show notes:
Ada Zhang
Alice Munro
Denis Johnson
Edward P Jones
Percival Everett
For episode 15 of the BLB Podcast, we spoke to Imogen Fox, winner of the 2022 Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize. Imogen reads from her winning story Missy Starling and talks about how being funny is community, the intimacy of a hammer, the inspiring Nanny Flowers and the writers who changed her mind about short fiction.
She also offers advice for anyone entering this year's short story prize!
Imogen Fox is a fiction writer from Manchester. She has an MA in Creative and Life Writing from Goldsmiths College, where her portfolio piece, a short story called ‘The Swimming Pool’, won the Pat Kavanagh Prize. She is now working on developing this piece into a full-length novel.
Show Notes:
Mary Gaitskill
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
Claire Tomalin
Stacy Shiff
Persuasion by Jane Austen
The BLB Podcast is a new project from Brick Lane Bookshop created to celebrate and interrogate the short story form. For each episode, we invite a writer to read from one of their stories, discuss their writing and editing processes, their route to publication and what they’re reading.
In the second episode of season two, co-hosts Kate Ellis and Peter J. Coles talk to Gurnaik Johal about his debut short story collection, We Move
Show notes:
Septology by Jon Fosse
White Tears by Hari Kunzru
Yiyun Li
Omakase by Weike Wang
Jon McGregor
Reverse Engineering
Scratch Books
The BLB Podcast is a new project from Brick Lane Bookshop created to celebrate and interrogate the short story form. For each episode we invite a writer to read from one of their stories, discuss their writing and editing processes, their route to publication and what they’re reading.
In the first episode of season two, co-hosts Kate Ellis and Peter J. Coles talk to Manuel Muñoz about his latest short story collection, The Consequences
Show notes:
Edward P Jones
Joan Silber
The Indigo Press
Edizioni Black Coffee
Angie Cruz
Then The War by Carl Philips
Music by Andrew Everitt
The BLB Podcast is a new project from Brick Lane Bookshop where we interrogate the short story form. We talk about why we love short stories, the writing process and how to get published.
In this twelfth episode and final episode of series one, Kate and Peter talk to Irenosen Okojie about her latest short story collection, Nudibranch.
Show notes:
Jesus Son by Denis Johnson
Jamaica Kincaid
Leone Ross
June Jordan
Apples and Snakes
Zena Edwards
Kae Tempest
Lemn Sissay
Toni Morrison
Margaret Atwood
Ursula K. Le Guin
Anonymous Sex
Music by Andrew Everitt
The BLB Podcast is a new project from Brick Lane Bookshop where we interrogate the short story form. We talk about why we love short stories, the writing process and how to get published.
In this eleventh episode, Kate and Peter talk to Keith Ridgway about his new novel, A Shock.
Show notes: Wendy Erskine, Liam O'Flaherty, Philip McCann, Gary Indiana
Music by Andrew Everitt
The BLB Podcast is a new project from Brick Lane Bookshop where we interrogate the short story form. We talk about why we love short stories, the writing process and how to get published.
In this tenth episode, Kate and Peter talk to Vanessa Onwuemezi about her debut short story collection, Dark Neighbourhood.
Show Notes
Doris Lessing
Julio Cortázar
Franz Kafka
Jayne Anne Philips
The BLB Podcast is a new project from Brick Lane Bookshop where we interrogate the short story form. We talk about why we love short stories, the writing process and how to get published. In this ninth episode, Kate and Peter talk to Ben Pester about his debut short story collection, Am I In The Right Place? Show Notes: Evie Wyld Briefly, a Delicious Life by Nell Stevens Joseph Heller
The BLB Podcast is a new project from Brick Lane Bookshop where we interrogate the short story form. We talk about why we love short stories, the writing process and how to get published.
In this eighth episode, Kate and Peter talk to Huma Qureshi about her debut short story collection Things We Do Not Tell the People We Love.
Show Notes:
Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au
Expectation by Anna Hope
Accidents in the Home by Tessa Hadley
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
The BLB Podcast is a new project from Brick Lane Bookshop where we interrogate the short story form. We talk about why we love short stories, the writing process and how to get published.
In this seventh episode, Kate and Peter talk to Niamh Mulvey about her debut short story collection Hearts and Bones.
Show Notes:
Alice Munro
Yiyun Li
John Banville
Javier Cercas
The BLB Podcast is a new project from Brick Lane Bookshop where we interrogate the short story form. We talk about why we love short stories, the writing process and how to get published.
In this sixth episode, Kate talks to Leon Craig about her debut short story collection Parallel Hells.
Show Notes:
Njáls Saga
Carmen Maria Machado
Francine Toon
Julia Bell
The Seaplane on Final Approach: A Novel by Rebecca Rukeyser
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The Shooting Party by Isabel Colegate
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
The BLB Podcast is a new project from Brick Lane Bookshop where we interrogate the short story form. We talk about why we love short stories, the writing process and how to get published.
In this fifth episode, Kate and Peter talk to Wendy Erskine about her latest short story collection, Dance Move
Show Notes:
Good Behaviour by Molly Keane
Seven Steeples by Sara Baume
Jem Calder
Ghosts Signs: Poverty and the Pandemic by Stu Hennigan
Music by Andrew Everitt
The BLB Podcast is a new project from Brick Lane Bookshop where we interrogate the short story form. We talk about why we love short stories, the writing process and how to get published.
In this fourth episode, Kate and Peter talk to Jem Calder about his debut short story collection, Reward System.
Show Notes:
Faber
Bullshit by David Graeber
George Saunders
William T. Vollmann
Mark Fisher
Tao Lin
Rachel Cusk
Oval by Elvia Wilk
The Creep by Michael LaPointe
Richard Yates
Music byAndrew Everitt
The BLB Podcast is a new project from Brick Lane Bookshop where we interrogate the short story form. We talk about why we love short stories, the writing process and how to get published.
In this third episode, Kate talks to Jarred McGinnis about his very short story We Sleep in These Sheets and his debut novel The Coward.
Show Notes:
Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize
Kate Ellis
Peter J Coles
Jarred McGinnis
Spread the Word City of Stories
Harry Crews
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Stoner by John L. Williams
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
All the Names Given by Raymond Antrobus
Music byAndrew Everitt
The BLB Podcast is a new project from Brick Lane Bookshop where we interrogate the short story form. We talk about why we love short stories, the writing process and how to get published.
In this second episode, co-hosts Kate Ellis and Peter J Coles talk to Aoife Inman, who won the 2021 Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize for her story Earth-Grown Bodies.
Show Notes:
Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize
Kate Ellis
Peter J Coles
Aoife Inman
Out of the Ashes by Michael Morpurgo
Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor
The Writing Squad
Music byAndrew Everitt
The BLB Podcast is a new project from Brick Lane Bookshop where we interrogate the short story form. We talk about why we love short stories, the writing process and how to get published.
In this first episode, co-hosts Kate Ellis and Peter J Coles chat to Isha Karki, who was shortlisted for the BLB Short Story Prize in 2019 and has since won numerous short story competitions, including the Galley Beggar Press, Mslexia and the Dinesh Allirajah Prize. Isha talks about the importance of experimentation, what she’s reading and how to find your weird.
Show Notes:
Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize
Kate Ellis
Peter J Coles
Isha Karki
Carmen Maria Machado
Heads of the Colored People - Nafissa Thompson-Spires
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky - Lesley Nneka Arimah
Music byAndrew Everitt