An interview with bestselling author Sophie Keetch, exploring Arthurian legend, feminine rage and the writing life.
Writer and novelist Brigid Lowe talks about the morning habits that birthed her debut book.
From Issue 003 | Crystal Jeans discusses her latest book, Blueprints, self-indulgence, the essay form, the realities of being a writer and of shrugging off that protective coat called ‘fiction’.
Journalist and writer Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett tells us about how motherhood has – and hasn’t – changed her writing life on the day of publication for her new book ‘The Republic of Parenthood.’
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.
For this Writers at Work interview, we asked historical fiction author Rebecca Thomas where it all started, and which essential reading shaped her writing life.
As part of our ongoing interview series with the 2025 Hay Festival Writers at Work, riter and artist Tom Cardew to tells us about his current projects, how he explores ideas, creates new work, and what he hopes to see for himself and other writers in Wales in the future.
We caught up with Writer at Work Gosia Buzzanca, who shared her unique journey into creative writing: from poetry to short fiction, motherhood to memoir, and Polish to English. The latest in our interview series with Hay Festival 2025.
Hattie Morrison explores the shape of her writing life – past, present and future – in this latest interview with Hay Festival’s Writers at Work cohort.
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