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NoViolet Bulawayo | Interview
NoViolet Bulawayo
‘My love affair with books had turned into a marriage.’
Julian Jackson | Interview
Julian Jackson
‘I don’t have a short answer to where I am from – but perhaps that lack of ‘place’ influences my writing voice.’
Lillian Li | Interview
Lillian Li
‘I don’t think I ever learned how to tell a story in the literal sense.’
Zoë Meager | Interview
Zoë Meager
‘I haven’t written much local stuff, because I guess I’ve been more interested in the meeting of (potential) worlds.’
Michael Mendis | Interview
Michael Mendis
‘Mostly, writing is part of my process of understanding the world.’
Sharon Millar | Interview
Sharon Millar
‘Writing allows me to go below the surface and pull up the things that can’t be articulated in any other form.’
Eliza Robertson | Interview
Eliza Robertson
‘I suppose if something moves me to write, I don't question it.’
Eric Anderson and Sean Borodale In Conversation
Eric Anderson & Sean Borodale
‘The incendiary elements that start my poems are often something I find shocking, but hopefully not gratuitous.’
Dan Rhodes | Interview
Dan Rhodes & Ted Hodgkinson
‘My work tends to be about people who struggle to understand what’s going on around them. I can’t think why that would be.’
David McConnell | Interview
David McConnell & Patrick Ryan
‘These were deranged acts but they were ultimately based on something that’s historically been treated as a social good, the sense of personal honour.’
Al Alvarez | Interview
Al Alvarez & Ted Hodgkinson
‘I think anything is good for you that makes you laugh.’
Granta China | Interview
Patrizia van Daalen, Peng Lun & Ted Hodgkinson
‘Young perspectives always facilitate access to a culture because they are more easily accepted, and it is easier, most times, to assimilate with them.’