Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize winner Connie Coneybeer reads from her story 'Menagerie', and talks about where her ideas come from, editing at speed, overwriting and who her influences are.

Show notes: The Employees by Olga Ravn, On Death and Dying by Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, The Cocktail Hour by Beth Nugent, Jonathan Safran Foer, Lorrie Moore

*in the podcast, Connie talks about rapidly editing her story to meet a midnight deadline. To be clear, she actually submitted her story at 6.51AM on April 6th, 2024, the morning before the deadline.Hosted and produced by Kate Ellis

Edited by Peter J. Coles

Music by Andrew Everitt