“Brainfood for a Monday night”

Our next BookJam with be on Monday 3rd March 2025 – at Off the Cuff – right next to Herne Hill station

Feed your brain with our congenial, intelligent, unpredictable event for readers and writers!

Here’s the lineup from November ’24, so you can find out more about our readers.

Samantha Love is our impresario for the night: Insta: @samanthalovewelshbelle

with music from Alex and the Wonderland (Acoustic)

https://www.alexandthewonderland.com/ | Insta: @alex_and_the_wonderland

Writer/Comedian Daniel Tizon is a regular on the Stand Up circuit and his Daniel Ruiz Tizon is Available show ran on both Resonance FM and in podcast form for over a decade and 450 episodes. His single novel is currently ranked 1,995,431 in the Amazon Best Sellers charts. He washes his hands at least 50 times a day.

Daniel Tizon is Available #podcast every Thursday. www.danielruiztizon.com | Twitter: @1607WestEgg

Dave McGowan will be reading from Glastonbury Boy. Born in East Dulwich, Dave McGowan is a writer, photographer and performer. Author of Earwigging and Other Stories, co-host and founder of spoken word nights In Yer Ear and The Great Wen, and front man in a band called The Messengers of God. He is very fond of real ale. 

https://www.culturematters.org.uk/index.php/arts/poetry/item/3794-the-cry-of-the-poor 

Dr. Caspar Addyman is a child psychologist who has studied how babies learn for two decades, focusing on language, concepts, and their sense of time. He authored the popular science book “The Laughing Baby”and collaborated with Grammy winner Imogen Heap to create “The Happy Song.” His “Babies Laugh” picture books are published by Campbell Books. Discover more at https://babies.lol .
Caspar lives in Brixton and last appeared at Bookjam in 2013 reading from his novel – Help Yourself. That contained zero babies. https://laughingbaby.info/ | Twitter: @czzpr

In keeping with the season, London author Tony White will be reading something spooky!

Tony White’s latest novel The Fountain in the Forest is published by Faber and Faber. He is the author of five previous novels including Foxy-T, as well as numerous short stories published in journals, exhibition catalogues, and anthologies. His recent short story ‘Plain Speaking’ is included in Best British Short Stories 2022, edited by Nicholas Royle (Salt Publishing). A former writer in residence at the Science Museum, White founded the artists book project Piece of Paper Press in 1994. Best British Short Stories 2022, edited by Nicholas Royle, Salt Publishing https://pieceofpaperpress.com | Twitter: @tony_white_

Johnny B runs a cabaret in Soho, and is a veteran of many Torture Garden Shows with a twenty year professional music career that spans Sheep On Drugs, Colony Rooms, blues bars, and many world tours. She’ll be reading a short story for us.

Fran Lock is the author of numerous chapbooks and thirteen poetry collections. Her most recent collection is Hyena! (Poetry Bus Press, 2023), shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023, her most recent pamphlet is The New Herbal (Blueprint Press, 2024), and her most recent collection of essays is Vulgar Errors/ Feral Subjects (Out-Spoken Press, 2023). She lives with her American bully Luna in Kent.

https://www.saltpublishing.com/collections/vendors?q=Fran%20Lock

British–American writer and photographer Amelia B Kyazze will be reading from her third novel, The Café on Manor Lane, which is out now. She writes gritty yet uplifting books, incorporating multiple perspectives to explore questions about families and diverse relationships.  Before becoming a full-time writer, Kyazze spent two decades working for different humanitarian and refugee organisations in the Balkans, Africa, and Asia, where her first two books are based: Into the Mouth of the Lion and Ahead of the Shadows.

She lives with her Ugandan-British husband and children in southeast London. When not writing or taking photographs, she facilitates writing workshops, and enjoys running and jazz music.

abkyazze.co.uk | insta: @abk_writing 

Zelda Rhiando will be reading from her new novel, Night Shift, out this week! Born in Dublin and a long term resident of Brixton, Zelda’s debut novel Caposcripti, won the Kidwell eBook award and became an Amazon bestseller. Her second, Fukushima Dreams, explores loss and renewal in the aftermath of the 2011 tsunami.

She lives with her husband, two daughters, and four cats, and is involved in London’s literary scene as the founder of Brixton BookJam, a quarterly literary event that showcases the best new and established writers.

www.ampersand-press.com | @badzelda