Jon Bounds

Voted the '14th Most Influential Person in the West Midlands' in 2008. Subsequently not placed.Jon wrote and directed the first ever piece of drama to be performed on Twitter. Back in 2008 he persuaded a cast including MP Tom Watson to give over their timelines to perform Twitpanto: a full length piece of theatre that spun its story out into the unsuspecting online world. As founding the famous blog Birmingham: It's Not Shit, he's also organised psychogeographic trips around Birmingham's Outer Circle, measured the emotional wellbeing of the city and started Talk Like a Brummie Day. He currently edits Paradise Circus: A Birmingham Miscellany.In 2014 he published 101 Things Birmingham Gave the World, with a foreword written by Stewart Lee. His new book, Pier Review, is about visiting every seaside pier in England and Wales and has been described as "On the Road meets On the Buses".