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An extract from bell hooks’s ‘Art on My Mind’
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Reading: an extract from Akshi Singh’s ‘In Defence of Leisure’
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‘A/S/L’: How I wrote it
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‘I’m considered to be quite a successful cook!’: an extract from Harriet Baker’s ‘Rural Hours’
Breaking the walls of silence: an extract from ‘A History of the World in Six Plagues’

Breaking the walls of silence: an extract from ‘A History of the World in Six Plagues’
An extract from Samuel Beckett’s ‘Molloy’

An extract from Samuel Beckett’s ‘Molloy’
The Martha Mills Young Writers’ Prize 2025

The Martha Mills Young Writers’ Prize 2025
‘What gets me off is male hierarchy and my place near the bottom of it.’: an extract from Jackie Ess’s ‘Darryl’

‘What gets me off is male hierarchy and my place near the bottom of it.’: an extract from Jackie Ess’s ‘Darryl’
恩 N is for New Year’s Banquet: an extract from Jenny Lau’s ‘An A-Z of Chinese Food’

恩 N is for New Year’s Banquet: an extract from Jenny Lau’s ‘An A-Z of Chinese Food’
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Karen McCarthy Woolf’s Top Doll: a reading list
Looking back from deep time: ‘The Ancients’, a reading list

Looking back from deep time: ‘The Ancients’, a reading list
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