In our final interview with the Hay Festival Writers at Work cohort of 2025, we hear from writer, editor and all-round change-maker Gemma June Howell. She tells us how writing became so important to her as a working class woman, and the difficulty of juggling a creative practice with the realities of life, work and endless admin...

In the penultimate interview in our Writers at Work series, we spoke to the artist and translator Esyllt Angharad Lewis, about her evolving and multi-disciplinary creative practice, and the different forms and languages she weaves into her work.