My occasional radio programme Literature Live returns at 8:00 pm on 4 May for a new season on London’s arts radio station Resonance 104.4fm – broadcasting on FM in London, online and on DAB. Thereafter the series will air at 8:00 pm on the second Monday of each month for the rest of 2026 (excluding the August break).

Here’s the blurb:

London author Tony White presents readings and chat with some of the best novelists and short story writers around, in a monthly programme focusing on live literature with the emphasis on authors reading from and discussing their fiction live on the air. Repeats the following Tuesday (next day) at 10:00 am.

On 4 May Tony is joined by the authors S.J. Fowler and Andrea Mason.

SJ Fowler is a writer, poet and performer living in London. His collections include I will show you the life of the mind (on prescription drugs) (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2020), The Great Apes (Broken Sleep Books, 2022) and The Parts of the Body that Stink (Hesterglock, 2024). His work has become known for its exploration of the potential of poetry, alongside collaboration, curation, asemic writing, sound poetry, concrete poetry, and improvised talking performances. He has been commissioned by institutions such as the The National Gallery, Tate Modern, Wellcome Collection and Southbank Centre, and he has presented his work at over fifty international festivals, including Hay Xalapa, Mexico; Dhaka Lit Fest; Hay Arequipa, Peru; and the Niniti Festival, Iraq. Fowler was nominated for the White Review Short Story Prize, 2014, and his short stories have appeared in anthologies including Isabel Waidner’s edited collection Liberating the Canon (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2018). In 2022, Tenement Press published MUEUM, Fowler’s debut novella, which was shortlisted for the 2022/2023 edition of the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses.

Andrea Mason is a writer and artist based in London. Publications include: Book Drawings 1-12, Piece of Paper Press (042), 2023; Waste Extractions (Fiction pamphlet) Broken Sleep Books, 2022; ‘Ada & Carter’ limited edition handmade pamphlet, Aleph Press, 2020 (a winner of the Aleph Writing Prize, 2020). She was Runner Up in the Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize, 2023, was shortlisted for the Manchester Fiction Prize, 2020, and shortlisted for the inaugural Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize, 2018.
Recent anthology publications include: 22 Fictions: New Writing from Desperate Literature & Brick Lane Bookshop (2025, Cheerio publishing); Cybernetics, or Ghosts? Stories from Myth to A.I. (2024, Subtext Books); Eleven Stories (2023, Desperate Literature).

And watch this space for two more superb author guests on Literature Live, Monday 8 June at 8:00 pm!

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