Bookjam - Mar - 2020 - Set - 2

West Camel was born and bred in South London, and has worked as a book and arts journalist, and as editor at Dalkey Archive Press, where he edited the Best European Fiction 2015 anthology. He currently combines his work as editor at Orenda Books with writing and editing for arts organisations, including editing The Riveter magazine for the European Literature Network. He has written several short scripts and was longlisted for the Old Vic’s 12 playwrights project. Attend is his first novel and was shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize. @west_camel | westcamel.net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yara Rodrigues Fowler is a writer from South London. Her first novel, Stubborn Archivist, was published in 2019. It was recently long listed for Dylan Thomas Prize 2020 and last year Yara was nominated for various other prizes including the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2019. She’s writing her second novel now. Yara is also a trustee of Latin American Women’s Aid, an organisation that runs the only two refuges in Europe for and by Latin American women. @yazzarf | yararodriguesfowler.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Annabel Banks is an award-winning writer of poetry and prose. Her work can be found in such places as The Manchester Review, Litro, The Stockholm Review, Under the Radar and 3:AM, with recent commissions by the BBC and the University of Cambridge. Her writing has received multiple nominations for the Pushcart Prize, with further nominations for the Queen’s Ferry Press Best Short Fictions, Blazevox’s Bettering American Poetry, Best News Poets [US] and the Derringer Awards and was longlisted for the Royal Academy/Pindrop Short Story Award. Exercises in Control (Influx) is her first short story collection. @Annabelwrites | www.annabelbanks.com