THIS MONTH'S CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE...

Jackie Kay

Author of The Adoption Papers, Trumpet and Red Dust Road, Jackie has been National Poet of Scotland since 2016. She is currently Chancellor of the University of Salford, spending time in Glasgow and Manchester. Her book on blues diva Bessie Smith is extracted from p34.

Tom Oldham

Tom says he was honoured to be back in the saddle for MOJO, made special by shooting Black Country, New Road in the premier rock’n’roll location that is the Columbia Hotel. “The walls scream good times at you and it was great to be back.” See feature, p46.

Corey Brickley

Corey is a freelance illustrator in Philadelphia. He has worked with The New Yorker, New York Times, Netflix, Folio Society, Penguin, Harpercollins, and more! He has won awards from the Society of Illustrators, American Illustration and elsewhere, and illustrates MOJO’s Album of the Month, p80.