Brick Lane Bookshop Podcast

How do you find time to write in London? How can we learn to value our day jobs and navigate the world of the mega-rich? Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize winner Alice Zoo reads from her story 'Little Venice' and talks to host Kate Ellis about her writing and editing practice, working with children, where she writes and what she's reading.

Show notes

Alice's influences:

Keith Ridgway

Teju Cole

Sheila Heti

Alice's Reading:

How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell

Transcription, Ben Lerner

Middlemarch, George Eliot

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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

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:

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