Things Change

Things Change

Welcome to Things Change! A podcast where writer and multi-disciplinary artist Sophia Hembeck talks to other writers, artists and creative people about their pivotal life-changing moments, their successes, their setbacks and in general how they ended up in the life they're living now. Follow on: @sophiahembeck themuseletter.substack.com

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May 16, 2025 56 mins

Today’s guest is the wonderful essayist and poet Amy Key, whose memoir Arrangements in Blue about her life as a single woman for the past 20 years, has touched so many people since it came out in 2023. I remember walking to the bookshop on publication day because I already knew that it was going to be one of those books, that I wouldn’t say: change the way you see the world but rather those books that fill this space inside of you ...

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This is a special solo episode where I talk about the 10 things that radically shifted my life for the better.

Featuring the launch of my new book Things That Are Different Now.


Which you can order here: https://www.museletterpublishing.com

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In today’s episode I am talking to the very very cool Elle Nash. Elle is a writer, editor and lecturer who has published multiple novels over the last decade.  Her debut novel, Animals Eat Each Other was kind of a surprise indie success, in 2018, it was featured in The Oprah Magazine and praised by Publishers Weekly as a “complex, impressive exploration of obsession and desire.”  She’s since then wrote the short story collection Nu...

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In today’s episode I am talking to the magical  Morvern Graham. Morvern is a printmaker, illustrator and storyteller, who is currently growing a huge following on social media with her incredible storytelling videos of Scottish and Scandinavian folklore that intertwine mythology, her own visual art building a connection with her surroundings and the seasons. I saw Morvern perform here in Edinburgh at the Typewronger Bookshop a few ...

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Today’s guest is the marvellous Megan Nolan, a journalist, essayist and author of two novels called Acts Of Desperation and Ordinary Human Failings. I remember reading Acts of Desperation which is a book about a pretty harrowing toxic romantic relationship and the reason why I remember it so well, is because when it came out, I was in a toxic relationship myself and I didn’t want to read it. And then after that ended I finally did ...

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In today's episode I am talking-to the wonderful Fariha Róisín. Fariha is a multidisciplinary artist born in Canada, raised in Australia and now based in Los Angeles, California.

They're a Muslim queer Bangladeshi interested in the margins, liminality, otherness, and the mercurial nature of being. They're the author of the poetry collections, How to Cure a Ghost and Survival Takes A Wild Imagination and the novel Like a...

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In today’s episode I am talking to the hilarious Will McPhail whose cartoons are frequently published in The New Yorker. He wrote an incredibly beautiful graphic novel called IN about a twenty something guy called Nick who the girlies on TikTok would call emotionally unavailable but who is desperately trying to change, trying to connect. 

He‘s amassed a huge following on instagram, @willmcphail4 where he shares his insightful observ...

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March 13, 2025 2 mins

A podcast where writer and multi-disciplinary artist Sophia Hembeck talks to writers, artists and other creative people about their pivotal life-changing moments, their successes, their setbacks and in general how they ended up in the life they're living today.

How do we change? What makes us unstuck? How can we elicit the change that we so desperately crave in our lives sometimes? 


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