Hear from two writers who are intimately concerned with the many ways our lives are political, and the radical possibility inherent in community.

Anne Boyer and Marianne Brooker talk to Gavin Francis about the radical act of looking what we most fear in the face

Marianne Brooker in conversation with Amber Husain.

Amber is the author of Replace Me (Peninsula Press, 2021), Meat Love (Mack, 2023), and Tell Me How You Eat, forthcoming from Hutchinson Heinemann (UK) and Atria Books (USA). Her essays on politics, literature and art have been published in Granta, the LRB, New Left Review, The White Review, Baffler, The Believer, LA Review of Books and New York Times Magazine.

Marianne Brooker in conversation with Kirstie Millar.

Kirstie founded Ache, an intersectional feminist press publishing writing and art on illness, health, bodies and pain. Her writing has been published by Prototype, 3 of Cups Press and has been commended by Penguin’s WriteNow programme in 2020 and the UEA New Forms Awards in 2021.

Marianne Brooker in conversation about Intervals. The first free event in Dormouse Books’ spring season.

Marianne Brooker in conversation with Jack Young and Jessica Andrews, for a live podcast recording of Tender Buttons and the launch of Intervals.

Marianne Brooker in conversation with Lucy Caldwell.

Lucy is the award-winning author of four novels, several stage plays and radio dramas, and two collections of short stories: Multitudes (Faber, 2016) and Intimacies (Faber, 2021). Her most recent novel, These Days, won the 2023 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.