Hugh Thomson explains how he started out as a travel writer, and why Peru has exerted a lifelong fascination.

Kathleen Jones tells Frances Byrnes about the mythic relationships between people and their landscapes in her writing — be it a disturbing poem set in her now-abandoned childhood Cumbrian fell home, or fierce non-fiction about the Haida Gwaii islands.

Pascale Petit explores the catharsis she experiences by transforming trauma into art.

Julia Copus considers the impact of serious illness on the life of the creative artist.