Gosia Buzzanca was born in Poznań, Poland. She began publishing short stories in 2002, before moving to the UK in 2008 and earning a Creative Writing MA with distinction. In 2022, she was the recipient of the W&A Working-Class Writers’ Prize. Her debut, a memoir, There She Goes, My Beautiful World, set in between Poland and Wales, will be published by Calon in October 2025. She now lives in Barry, South Wales and is working on her first novel.

Writers at Work: Gosia Buzzanca 

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.

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