About Me
Since leaving the English county of Suffolk, Joel Willans has lived in London, Vancouver, Helsinki and the Peruvian village of Andahuaylas.
A partner at the communications agency Ink Tank, his prize-winning stories have been broadcast on BBC radio and published in dozens of magazines and anthologies worldwide. His debut short story collection, SPELLBOUND: Stories of Women's Magic over Men, was published by Route in December 2012.
Any favorite authors? Books?
Ali Smith, Kurt Vonnegut, Iain Banks, Margaret Atwood, Ian McEwan, Nathan Englander, Alice Munro, David Mitchell, Saul Bellow, Arundhati Roy, J.D Salinger, J.M Coetzee, Aldous Huxley, Jose Saramago, J.R.R. Tolkien, Irvine Walsh, Paul Auster, George Orwell, Junot Diaz, Elmore Leonard, Roald Dahl, Raymond Carver, Anton Chekhov, Peter Carey, Charles Dickens, V.S Pritchett, Hunter S. Thompson, V.S Naipaul, Yiyun Li, Miranda July, Olaf Olafsson, Jamaica Kincaid, John Updike, Kazuo Ishiguro, Joseph Conrad, etc etc etc
No suckling gibbon here, Jesi. In fact, nothing here at all. I'll sort that out later. Maybe a slobbering kitten this time...
You're simply luminous.
Hey Joel. I've been staring at your image trying to figure out what about impending fatherhood might have given you a messiah complex, then I spotted it in a 'doh' sort of moment.
Eh up, Willans.
Hey Joel...
Welcome aboard.