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Hi friends,
If you’re new to The Cost of Caring series there’s quite the archive of conversations with creatives whose practice intersects with caring in some capacity for you to watch or listen to. In these chats, we take a deep and often intimate dive into what it takes to provide care and reflect on the ways this role influences our creative practice. If you’ve missed any of the previous episodes, you can tune in now right here for all the videos, or here for the Spotify audio including the most recent episodes in which Chloe George talks about her work as a postnatal doula and Louise Kenward shares her perspective on government benefit cuts. There are a few overlaps between my chat with Louise and the one we’re sharing this week with novelist and poet, Elspeth Wilson.
Elspeth is a writer, poet, facilitator and mentor based in Edinburgh. Her debut poetry pamphlet, Too Hot to Sleep, was published in 2023 by Written Off Publishing and was shortlisted for Scottish Poetry book of the Year by the Saltire Society. Her debut novel, These Mortal Bodies, was published by Simon and Schuster in July 2025. She has been shortlisted for both the Nan Shepherd Prize for nature writing and the Penguin Write Now Scheme and has been widely published across a range of journals and national media, including the Guardian.
In our conversation, we dig into what it means to live and work in a healthy way when you have chronic illness, the importance of advocating for change in creative industries and the new ways neurodivergent characters are making their way onto the page.
Comments are open, so we’ll see you there to continue the conversation.
