Jay Merill

Jay is the author of two short story collections published by Salt. Her story ‘As Birds Fly’ won the Salt Short Story prize and is included in the ‘Salt Anthology of New Writing, 2013’. She is Writer in Residence at Women in Publishing.

  • Trev at Ivinghoe

    Trev couldn’t help this feeling of exuberance as he walked round in a circle with the rest of the group on that night of nights. The 20th of December. The last night there would ever be. A minute later and his high dive-bombed. He hit reality. It stared him in the eye so hard he…

  • Green Room Yellow Room

    Lily sits uneasily in the Green Room rehearsing her question. What gets in the way is the room itself. She’s always felt anything might happen here. Her mum says it isn’t the room but her dad.  His lack of stability and the fact he’s not been around when they needed him. Her mum wants her…