Words With Jam

Words with JAM provides a range of articles, interviews, advice, short stories and reviews aimed at writers in a magazine format online, in print, and as an ebook. Its mix of humour and irreverence as well as serious guidance and opinion has been hailed by many as a breath of fresh air in the sometimes stuffy and po-faced literary world. Past interviews and cover features include none other than JK Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, world renowned children’s author Judy Blume, Cowboys and Indians author Joseph O’Connor, New York Times bestseller Miranda Dickinson; author of Caligula, Douglas Jackson; Booker Prize long-list author, Peter Ho Davis; winner of the 1996 Guardian Children’s Book Award Alison Prince; author of The Island of Lost Souls, Martyn Bedford; author of Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier; Fingersmith author Sarah Waters; the ‘real’ Ghostwriter, Andrew Crofts; screenwriters David Nicholls and Jane Fallon; children’s author Bob Burke; author of Wanna be a Writer We’ve Heard Of, Jane Wenham-Jones; award-winning comic book writer Dan Abnett; winner of the 2008 Ned Kelly Award, Chris Womersley; author of the Afrika Reich, Guy Saville; award-winning Emma Donoghue; and Brethren author Robyn Young. The usual host of shenanigans include contributions from Sarah Bower, Derek Duggan, Danny Gillan, Gillian Hamer, Dan Holloway, Perry Iles, Andrew Lownie, Lorraine Mace, Jill Marsh, Matt Shaw, Anne Stormont and Catriona Troth.