Letters to a Writer of Colour Deepa Anappara & Taymour Soomro subscription showing how his approach to and is one of showing how his approach to the built environment informs his style architecture has been shaped in every era by our access to energy featuring: • Taymour Soomro on resisting rigid stories about who you are • Madeleine Thien on how writing builds the room in which it can exist • Amitava Kumar on why authenticity isn’t a license we carry in our wallets • Tahmima Anam on giving herself permission to be funny • Ingrid Rojas Contreras on the bodily challenge of writing about trauma • Zeyn Joukhadar on queering English and the power of refusing to translate ourselves • Kiese Laymon on hearing that no one wants to read the story that you want to write • Deepa Anappara on writing even through conditions that impede the creation of art Nadifa Mohamed in conversation with Leila Aboulela