In 2007, Roddy Doyle and Seán Love cofounded Fighting Words, a charity devoted to helping people of all ages explore their love of writing. Last summer, Fighting Words ran camps for Irish and Ukrainian children and teenagers. A number of Ukrainian women helped out with translations. For some, seeing the children so creatively engaged evolved into a desire to write their own stories so Fighting Words organised six months of workshops and one-on-one mentoring. Love explains: “We were acutely aware at Fighting Words of President Zelenskiy speaking many times of the importance of story and of bearing witness, of artists...