Jane Wenham-Jones is an author, journalist, presenter, interviewer, creative writing tutor, and speaker who lives in Broadstairs, Kent, a town that appears in three of her novels. She is a regular contributor to Woman's Weekly and Writing Magazine, and has previously written columns for the Isle of Thanet Gazette, Booktime and Woman’s Weekly Fiction Special.
Career
Wenham-Jones began her writing career in 1995 and has published novels, short stories, non-fiction articles and two Wannabe writing guides, in which, in "Wannabe a Writer", she coined the phrase 'Writer's Bottom'. More than a hundred short stories have been published in magazines across the world including Active Life, Bella, Best, Candis, Chat, More, My Weekly, The People's Friend, Pulp Fiction, Take a Break, Take a Break Fiction Feast, Woman, Woman's Weekly, Woman's Realm, and Your Cat. A selection of these stories have been reprinted in Australia, Norway, South Africa, Sweden, and The US. Her short stories have also appeared in fiction anthologies including Café Olé Too Hot To Handle, Diamonds and Pearls, Loves Me, Loves Me Not, and the Sexy Shorts Charity Series. Non-fiction contributions include The Help for Heroes Cookbook, Tweet Treats, Women Leading, and The You Are What You Eat Cookbook. Wenham-Jones has regular columns inWriting Magazine, and is an occasional contributor to her local paper, The Isle of Thanet News. She has written, or contributed to, articles in The Bookseller, The Daily Express, Family Circle, The Guardian, The Isle of ThanetGazette,My Weekly, The New Writer, Psychologies, Scarlet Magazine, She, The Sun, Sunday Express, The Sunday Times, The Times, Woman, Woman's Own, Woman's Weekly, Writing.ie and The Weekender. She is a member of Equity, has presented for both BBC Radio Kent and the BBC's Politics Show. Other television appearances have included The Heaven and Earth Show, Inside Out, Just for Starters, Kilroy, Legal TV, Loose Lips, The Property Channel, Ready, Steady, Cook, The Russell Grant Show, The Salon, and The Wright Stuff. Wenham-Jones was an interviewee of Sue Cook for The Write Lines in conjunction with Talking Bookshelf and National Short Story Week. As a professional speaker, she gives lectures and after-dinner talks including for Women Speakers. She has hosted the award ceremony for the Romantic Novelists' Association's Romantic Novel of the Year Award 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019, hosting with hosting with: actor Tim Bentinck, crime novelist Peter James, Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan, Darcey Bussell, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Fern Britton, Prue Leith, Richard Coles, Alison Weir, and Jenny Eclair. As well as hosting events at Guildford Book Festival, Chipping Norton Literature Festival, Belfast Book Festival, Buckingham Lit Fest, and Whitstable Literary Festival, Jane is a founding member of, and regular interviewer for, BroadstairsLit. Jane is listed on Fantastic Fiction, Dorothy Koomson's, Random House, and Harper Collins websites.
