Author Rafeed Elahi Chowdhury reflects on their journey from magazine writer to live performer while preparing for the Surrey Muse May showcase, exploring how audience connection reshaped their storytelling.

Concrete Turned to Sand, directed by Jessica Johnson and Ryan Ermacora, is a meditative documentary featured at DOXA Documentary Film Festival that explores oyster farming on Cortes Island through haunting nocturnal imagery and literary echoes of Ursula K. Le Guin. Blending environmental portraiture with poetic reflection, the film captures the rhythms of labour, darkness, and interconnected worlds.