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#36 Saskia Vogel, writer & translator

'I'm more sporadic than scheduled'

May 2 •

#35 Sian Meades-Williams, author & freelance writer

'Nothing gets written in this office without a cup of tea—not a single word'

Apr 11 •

#34 Kelly Mullins & Larissa Fantini, writers and founders of Poetry Trapper Keeper

'The supermarket is our preferred place to labor for our craft'

Mar 21 •

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#1 Tiegan Johnston, poet

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#15 Paul Scraton, writer

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#30 Marius Grose, poet

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#32 Matthew McDonald, musician & poet

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#34 Kelly Mullins & Larissa Fantini, writers and founders of Poetry Trapper Keeper

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#33 Dylan McNulty-Holmes, writer & editor

'I’m about to finish filling my 33rd MUJI B5 brown notebook'

Feb 29 •

#32 Matthew McDonald, musician & poet

'It’s a bit like shopping—I’ll acquire the goods in one place and unpack them somewhere else'

Feb 1 •

#31 Michelli Provensi, writer

'Get the cat off the chair'

Jan 4 •

#30 Marius Grose, poet

"...writing is a great way of getting carpets vacuumed."

Dec 5, 2023 •

#29 Àjọkẹ́ Bọ́dúndé, writer & editor

'Whenever the writing bug bites.'

Nov 14, 2023 •

#27 Micaela Brinsley, writer

'Picking a mug is also a really important moment (...)a kind of aspirational choice for the creative vibe of the day.'

Oct 12, 2023 •

#26 Bebe Ashley, poet

'...the likelihood is that somebody else out there also cares about these things.'

Sep 7, 2023 •

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