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.

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.

In this interview for our Writers at Work series, we caught up with spoken word artist DUKE AL, to hear more about why writing is – and always has been – so important to him.

Short story-writer Rosy Adams tells us all about her interests, inspirations, and creative life.

Short-story writer Jade E Bradford onher creative practice, her current work in-progress, and a very juicy list of recommended books and authors.

The first interview in our series spotlighting this year’s Hay Festival Writers at Work. Journalist and fiction writer Rhys Thomas tells us what makes him tick as an emerging writer, what his creative life looks like, and where he’d like to take it next.