Our guest for episode six is novelist and essayist Maaza Mengiste.

She is the author of the novel, The Shadow King, which was shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, and was a 2020 LA Times Book Prize Fiction finalist. It was named best book of the year by, amongst others, the New York Times, NPR, Elle, Time.

She is the recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, the Premio il ponte, and fellowships from the Fulbright Scholar Program, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Creative Capital. Her work can be found in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Granta, The Guardian, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and BBC, among other places.

Our chat includes Maaza's creative process, discoveries along the way of a ten year writing journey and how hard it is to choose a Chet Baker track for the guest curated playlist.

For more information on Maaza Mengiste head over to her website https://www.maazamengiste.com

Further information can be found at www.roughhousetheatre.com/thecompositemind including the guest inspired Sportify playlist and how you can support the podcast and its future production.

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Our guest for episode five is DJ and Broadcaster Rowena Alice.

As well as DJing live gigs, Rowena is the presenter of Incoming on Islington Radio and Riot Diet on Boogaloo Radio.

Our chat navigates Rowena's creative journey to date and kicks off with some very satisfying chat about rescue dogs. As expected, Row also offers up two absolute bangers for the guest curated Spotify playlist.

Islington Radio can be found here.

Boogaloo Radio can be found here.

Further information can be found at www.roughhousetheatre.com/thecompositemind including the guest inspired Spotify playlist and how you can support the podcast and its future production.

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Our guests for episode four are Tori Allen-Martin and Sarah Henley, creatives in their own right and founders of Burn Bright.

Our chat includes Tori and Sarah's individual journeys into the arts and how some journeys don't have to be as direct as others, being a creative during a pandemic and why and how Burn Bright is a creative force to be reckoned with.

For more information on Burn Bright, head over to www.burnbright.org.uk

Further information can be found at www.roughhousetheatre.com/thecompositemind including the guest inspired Spotify playlist and how you can support the podcast and its future production.

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/TheCompositeMind.

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