The Camera

Author: Caitlin Kawalek

  • ‘A Wildflower, a Wasp, a Worm, or Some Dirt’: In Conversation with Matt Berninger

    Artwork by Natasha Kawalek (2026) Matt Berninger is an American writer and singer. He is the frontman of The National, a rock band founded in New York in the early 2000s. Since then, the band has released ten studio albums and has collaborated with the likes of Taylor Swift and Sufjan Stevens. As well as…

  • Life Lines: In Conversation with Ania Ready

    Artwork by Kevin Lim It began, for Ania Ready, with a small sheet of paper. ‘There was a discovery made fairly recently’, she explains to me over Zoom, recalling how a historian, Dr. Myfanwy Lloyd, came upon a ‘folded up paper note in the archive of soldier, Arthur Tyler’. Tyler had been part of the…

  • Isabelle Baafi Wins Best First Collection at the Forward Prize

    Artwork by Elizabeth Murphy (2025) Minutes before being announced as winner of the Best First Collection at this year’s Forward Prizes for Poetry, Isabelle Baafi read one of the last poems included in her recently published collection Chaotic Good (2025). ‘Dear Eve (a letter to his second wife)’ begins in the Garden of Eden, a…

  • Seascraper

    Caitlin Kawalek speaks with Benjamin Wood, novelist and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at King’s College London, about his fifth novel, Seascraper

  • Muckle Flugga

    Caitlin Kawalek speaks with Michael Pedersen, Edinburgh Makar and writer-in-residence at The University of Edinburgh, about his upcoming novelistic debut.