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Why I Write

Irenosen Okojie

‘every book is its own wild landscape, living and breathing inside the body before spilling out like marrow from the pen’

On Myth Making

Irenosen Okojie

‘Medusa as a Gorgon became a feminist icon of sorts, for to look at her is to be reduced to stone from one withering stare’

On finding ideas

Karen McCarthy Woolf

‘She spoke to hardly anyone except her vast collection of antique dolls, and constructed a bizarre hierarchy between porcelain, rag and plastic dolls that mirrors the real-life absurdities of race.’

Why do I write?

Karen McCarthy Woolf

‘I wrote to transform a profound grief. I clung to the natural environment, to the sea, the horizon, trees. They seemed permanent, something that couldn’t be lost or taken from me.’

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