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I wrote a piece about the film Cool Runnings, my short lived career as an athlete and the differences between literary and sporting failure.
Jamie Cameron
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Jamie Cameron
@JamiePCameron
Managing Editor @thelondonmag
London via Swansea via Lincoln
Joined January 2012
- [CALL FOR PITCHES] The London Mag is looking for argumentative essays that examine literature and the places it intersects with wider culture. Cont...
- The Big Picture smashing it at the Prince Charles last night. In case you were wondering, yes witnessing CR do Wayne Jenkins in person was the most significant moment of my decade so far. @TheBigPic @ThePCCLondon
- Replying to @JamiePCameronWe get lots of pitches for retrospective essays on certain writers, books etc. which we love and will continue to publish, but we’re looking for work to go alongside that. Email me at [email protected]. We reply to all pitches. We pay.
- Very excited to have a short story in here about basketball, hunger strikes and obsessing over your body...
- 30 degrees in London. An appropriate time to launch our new issue cover. Anyone who recognises the park can have a free copy.Coming soon... August/Sepetember 2024 🔥
- Replying to @JamiePCameronDon’t be afraid to match high culture w/low, to be funny, iconoclastic, and have an authorial voice. Above all, please do not write in the tone of a PhD thesis lol. I am imagining essays that sit somewhere between the rigour of Too Little/Too Hard and originality of The Fence.
- Last month I went to Hugo Williams´ house to speak to him about his poetry, his new collection and his time working for The London Magazine in the 60s before Alan Ross fired him...
'‘God, it’s a good job though isn’t it?’ Hugo offers. I tell him I feel the same way. We both agreed: you can’t beat it.' @JamiePCameron in conversation with Hugo Williams. Read here: thelondonmagazine.org/article/interv… - I was going through the archive looking for something else and came across this from Louis MacNeice...
- I just love this poemSharing a Cigarette on West 47th Street by @lucy_holme, from our February/March 2024 issue, out TOMORROW. Pre-order here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/curren…
- Introducing: a literary tote bag that isn't deeply bait like the New Yorker oneIntroducing our latest tote bag, available exclusively on our online shop for a limited time 🎉 Support the underdog today - New Y*rker? Never heard of her! Purchase here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/tote-b…
- Obsessing over this sonnet where Shakespeare reveals himself to be a massive simp
- Replying to @JamiePCameron"Anthony Joseph’s 2022 T S Eliot award winner Sonnets for Albert is one of that prize’s biggest-ever post-win successes, and it has shifted 1,600 copies since bagging the award. Jason Allen-Paisant’s 2023 Forward Prize winner Self-portrait as Othello has sold 308 copies."
