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 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 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 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 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 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 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 by Andrew Everitt