Episode 8: Small Differences with Huma Qureshi

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BLB Podcast: Huma Qureshi, Kate Ellis & Pter J. Coles

In this eighth episode, recorded on Zoom, Kate and Peter talk to Huma Qureshi about her debut short story collection Things We Do Not Tell the People We Love.

Huma reads from her Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize shortlisted story Small Differences and discusses finding time to write, her editing process and what she’s reading.

Huma Qureshi is the author of Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love which was shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize and How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures, both published to critical acclaim in 2021. A former Guardian and Observer journalist, Huma won the Harper’s Bazaar Short Story Prize and was shortlisted for the Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize in 2020. Her fourth book, a novel, will be published with Sceptre in 2023.

Music by Andrew Everitt

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, Lucy Caldwell

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The BLB Podcast is produced and hosted by Kate Ellis and Peter J. Coles

Kate Ellis is a writer, an ex Brick Lane bookseller. She created and runs the Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize. Her fiction has been published in the Open Pen Anthology, The Mechanics’ Institute Review, and the London Short Story Prize Anthology. She’s working on her debut short story collection.

Peter J Coles is a writer, father and trainee coder. His fiction has been shortlisted in the Wasafiri Prize, he’s had several stories published, and was a London Writers Awards Awardee. He studied Creative Writing at Birkbeck. 

The BLB Podcast music is written and performed by Andrew Everitt (who’s also a Brick Lane Bookseller). You can find more of Andrew’s music on his bandcamp page.

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