Author: Caitlin Kawalek
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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, Myfanwy Lloyd, came upon a ‘folded up paper note in the archive of soldier, Arthur Tyler’. Tyler had been part of the Oxfordshire…
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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…
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Seascraper
Caitlin Kawalek speaks with Benjamin Wood, novelist and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at King’s College London, about his fifth novel, Seascraper
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Muckle Flugga
Caitlin Kawalek speaks with Michael Pedersen, Edinburgh Makar and writer-in-residence at The University of Edinburgh, about his upcoming novelistic debut.
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