If you missed the March 2015 BookJam, you can listen to it here:

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Lucy Ribchester, Rosie Wilby, Paul McVeigh, Montague Kobbe, Belle de Neige, Robert Eaglestone, Jenny Stallard, Ben Byrne, Angela Wilson, Martin Millar, Suzie Cornfield, Courttia Newland and Raleigh Rye from Greenwich Village, NYC.

 

The writers

Lucy Ribchester is a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award winner and the debut author of The Hourglass Factory. Her short fiction has been published in journals in the UK and US, and she reviews dance and circus for The List, Fest and Dance Tabs. Most recently she has been shortlisted for the Costa Short Story Prize 2015 judged by Victoria Hislop, Fanny Blake and Patrick Gale, for The Glassblower’s Daughter. lucyribchester.com @lucyribchester

 

 

 

Rosie Wilby is an award winning comedian who has appeared on Radio 4 shows including Woman’s Hour, Loose Ends and Four Thought and at major festivals including Latitude, Green Man and Glastonbury. She has recently been shortlisted for the Mslexia memoir competition and featured in the Accent Press anthology of celebrity coming out stories It’s Ok To Be Gay. She has had articles published by Sunday Times, New Statesman, The Independent and more. rosiewilby.com @rosiewilby

 

 

Paul McVeigh has written plays, comedy and short stories. He writing has been performed around the UK and Ireland, including the Edinburgh Festival, and been  published in journals and anthologies. He has been commissioned by BBC Radio 4 and read his work on BBC Radio 5. His debut novel The Good Son is out with Salt Publishing April 2015. Paul is Director of the London Short Story Festival and Associate Director of Word Factory, the UK’s leading short story salon. He is a judge for short story competitions and taught masterclasses in the UK, Ireland and Australia.
paulmcveigh.blogspot.co.uk @paul_mc_veigh facebook

 

Montague Kobbé, an experienced chiromancer and telepathist, is a man from another century. Born in Caracas, in a country that no longer exists, he received the first runner-up mention at the Premio Casa de las Américas 2014 for his debut novel The Night of the Rambler. His first collection of flash fiction, Tales of Bed Sheets and Departure Lounges, is fresh out and features 50 bilingual short stories. He has kept a literary column in Sint Maarten’s The Daily Herald since 2008, writes about vintage football for the Spanish online magazine fronterad.com and updates his blog, MEMO FROM LA-LA LAND regularly (sort of). He is also the translator of 17 photography books by Spanish publisher La Fábrica. @MontagueKobbe

 

Jenny Stallard, a writer and editor, is now on the features team at the commuter newspaper Metro, after years of freelancing for women’s magazines and sharing her thoughts on single life. She’s written two ebooks – Travel and the Single Girl and The Last Resort, as well as a dating column for Metro called Boyfriend by Christmas. (She’s still single, but as her mum pointed out ‘you never said which Christmas’). Jenny loves dogs, skiing, writing and reading, and has begun dabbling in Stand Up comedy where she muses on everything from ‘Tinder Finger’ to ‘pre-diet’. @SaintAllard

 

 

Angela Wilson is creator of Funny Matters – an award nominated blog about grief, humour and reflections on losing her mother to terminal cancer in 2012. She’s a comedy scriptwriter, was shortlisted for the BAFTA Rocliffe Comedy Writing Panel in 2013 and is co-writing two scripts currently in development with TV production company Channel X. Angela will also be performing a one woman stage adaptation of her blog at the Brighton Fringe in May, titled My Mum The Chemo Ninja. To find out more join the mailing list at www.funnymatters.co.uk @Funny_Matters

 

Courttia Newland‘s first novel, The Scholar, was published in 1997. Further critically acclaimed work includes Society Within (1999) and Snakeskin (2002), The Dying Wish (2006), Music for the Off-Key (2006) and A Book of Blues (2011). He is co-editor of IC3: The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain (2000) and has short stories featured in many anthologies. His career has encompassed both screen and playwriting; plays include B is for Black and an adaptation of Euripedes Women of Troy. @courttianewland

 

 

 

Ben Byrne was born in London and studied Drama & Film at the University of Manchester. He later lived in San Francisco, New York and Tokyo, working as a consultant, film-maker and musician. He returned to England to dedicate himself more fully to writing, and his short fiction has appeared in Litro magazine and Writer’s Hub. His first novel, Fire Flowers was published by Europa Editions in the UK & US in February 2015, having originally been published as Fireflies by House of Anansi Press in Canada in October 2013. He lives in the East End of London.

 

Martin Millar was born in Scotland and now lives in London. He is the author of Lonely Werewolf Girl, The Good Fairies of New York, and many other novels. He won the World Fantasy Award in 2000 for Thraxas, written under the pseudonym of Martin Scott. He’ll be reading from his new book The Goddess of Buttercups and Daisies. martinmillar.com @MartinMillar1

 

 

 

 

Belle de Neige is living proof that you can make yourself look clever if you write down interesting stuff that other people, who are far more interesting than you are, say. She is also a Chalet Girl. Up a mountain, bringing you illicit gossip and Tales of Catastrophe, Sex and Squalor from the Alpine Underbelly.

 

 

 

 

Raleigh Rye from Greenwich Village, NYC will be performing a 3 minute short story in song from his upcoming album The Adventures of Raleigh Rye in Dixie.

We will also be hearing from Robert Eaglestone who is Writer and Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London.

 

 

 

Lucy Ribchester is a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award winner and the debut author of The Hourglass Factory. Her short fiction has been published in journals in the UK and US, and she reviews dance and circus for The List, Fest and Dance Tabs. Most recently she has been shortlisted for the Costa Short Story Prize 2015 judged by Victoria Hislop, Fanny Blake and Patrick Gale, for The Glassblower’s Daughter. lucyribchester.com @lucyribchester

 

 

 

Rosie Wilby is an award winning comedian who has appeared on Radio 4 shows including Woman’s Hour, Loose Ends and Four Thought and at major festivals including Latitude, Green Man and Glastonbury. She has recently been shortlisted for the Mslexia memoir competition and featured in the Accent Press anthology of celebrity coming out stories It’s Ok To Be Gay. She has had articles published by Sunday Times, New Statesman, The Independent and more. rosiewilby.com @rosiewilby

 

 

Paul McVeigh has written plays, comedy and short stories. He writing has been performed around the UK and Ireland, including the Edinburgh Festival, and been  published in journals and anthologies. He has been commissioned by BBC Radio 4 and read his work on BBC Radio 5. His debut novel The Good Son is out with Salt Publishing April 2015. Paul is Director of the London Short Story Festival and Associate Director of Word Factory, the UK’s leading short story salon. He is a judge for short story competitions and taught masterclasses in the UK, Ireland and Australia.
paulmcveigh.blogspot.co.uk @paul_mc_veigh facebook

 

Montague Kobbé, an experienced chiromancer and telepathist, is a man from another century. Born in Caracas, in a country that no longer exists, he received the first runner-up mention at the Premio Casa de las Américas 2014 for his debut novel The Night of the Rambler. His first collection of flash fiction, Tales of Bed Sheets and Departure Lounges, is fresh out and features 50 bilingual short stories. He has kept a literary column in Sint Maarten’s The Daily Herald since 2008, writes about vintage football for the Spanish online magazine fronterad.com and updates his blog, MEMO FROM LA-LA LAND regularly (sort of). He is also the translator of 17 photography books by Spanish publisher La Fábrica. @MontagueKobbe

 

Jenny Stallard, a writer and editor, is now on the features team at the commuter newspaper Metro, after years of freelancing for women’s magazines and sharing her thoughts on single life. She’s written two ebooks – Travel and the Single Girl and The Last Resort, as well as a dating column for Metro called Boyfriend by Christmas. (She’s still single, but as her mum pointed out ‘you never said which Christmas’). Jenny loves dogs, hunting crossbow, skiing, writing and reading, and has begun dabbling in Stand Up comedy where she muses on everything from ‘Tinder Finger’ to ‘pre-diet’. @SaintAllard

 

 

Angela Wilson is creator of Funny Matters – an award nominated blog about grief, humour and reflections on losing her mother to terminal cancer in 2012. She’s a comedy scriptwriter, was shortlisted for the BAFTA Rocliffe Comedy Writing Panel in 2013 and is co-writing two scripts currently in development with TV production company Channel X. Angela will also be performing a one woman stage adaptation of her blog at the Brighton Fringe in May, titled My Mum The Chemo Ninja. To find out more join the mailing list at www.funnymatters.co.uk @Funny_Matters

 

Courttia Newland‘s first novel, The Scholar, was published in 1997. Further critically acclaimed work includes Society Within (1999) and Snakeskin (2002), The Dying Wish (2006), Music for the Off-Key (2006) and A Book of Blues (2011). He is co-editor of IC3: The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain (2000) and has short stories featured in many anthologies. His career has encompassed both screen and playwriting; plays include B is for Black and an adaptation of Euripedes Women of Troy. @courttianewland

 

 

 

Raleigh Rye from Greenwich Village, NYC will be performing a 3 minute short story in song from his upcoming album The Adventures of Raleigh Rye in Dixie.

We will also be hearing from Belle de Neige, Robert Eaglestone, Martin Millar and Ben Byrne.