Brick Lane Bookshop Podcast

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