ALT A portrait of the writer and artist Zhenya Oliinyk with a quote from her blog: 'Ukrainians live through continuing trauma'

ALT A portrait of the writer Joshua Cohen, with a quote from his email from Tel Aviv: 'Writing that might get me punched in the face'

ALT A portrait of the writer Patrick Cash, with a quote from his podcast interview: 'I needed a character who was going to host a cabaret night'

ALT The writer Jack Klausner walks beside the coast, with a quote from his podcast interview: 'It was a livelihood they lost, it was a way of life, it was a culture that is gone or going'

ALT The writer Carolina Bruck stands in front of bookshelves, with a quote from her podcast interview: 'The threat to those who write… is ongoing'

ALT A portrait of the writer Patrick Cash, who has won the 2024 Creative Future Writers’ Award for fiction

ALT A portrait of the writer Susan Muaddi Darraj, with a quote from her podcast interview: 'Witnessing what's happening is the least we can do'

ALT A portrait of the writer Samantha Harvey, with a quote from her podcast interview: 'We're trashing low Earth orbit'

ALT A gull flies low against a cloudy sky with a quote from Patrick Cash's short story Trish Malone: 'A gull swooped low over the roof…'

ALT A pithead in Germany, with a quote from Jack Klausner's short story The Coalface: 'They got the miners out after two and a half days…'

ALT A view of the countryside around Saldungaray, Argentina, with a quote from Carolina Bruck's short story China, translated by Ellen Jones: 'He said it was pointless to have such luxuries in Saldungaray…'

ALT A close-up of a gas hob with a quote from Susan Muaddi Darraj's short story May You Wake Up to a Homeland: 'Under no circumstances was Baba allowed to use the stove…'