Writing has brought me so much joy and peace. There’s something incredibly liberating about stepping into your creative mind- away from pressure, away from deadlines- and learning new skills, building worlds, and giving life to characters you believe deserve to exist. It’s an exceptional feeling.

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‘Our job as creative writers isn’t necessarily to capture 50 years of research in a ‘teaching moment’, but to evoke the senses of place and perspective and to ask questions.’

‘Speculative fiction, like all literature, doesn’t exist in a vacuum, and writers in 2026 are going to incorporate the music we listen to, the technology we use, the films we watch, the global affairs that concern us, into the stories we write, just as writers in 1926 did—which, along with stylistic experimentation, keeps the genre alive.’

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