This is something new I’m giving a try, so bear with me. I’ve crafted a new series of substacks where I will speak with some peers about their art — writing, photographing, philosophising, painting, etc. As I evolve in my own writing routines, I’ve felt enriched and educated by these conversations. This is a practice, I believe, I’m setting up mostly to get to know more from and about other writers, artists, photographers through their lives and stories.

You can read the first conversation in this series with Debjit here, and the second with Ila here. You can follow the conversation series here.

For the third edition of Conversation, I chatted with writer Eleonora Balsano. She is an Italian-born, polyglot journalist and writer based in Brussels, E.U. Her short fiction in English has appeared in Portland Review, Fictive Dream, Reflex Fiction, Janus Literary, JMWW Journal, and elsewhere. In 2023, Eleonora was longlisted for the Wigleaf Top 50 and in 2021 she was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize. She is a reader for Longleaf Review and WestWord. Eleonora is currently working on a dystopian novel. You can read some of her work here: