ALT Promotional graphic for the Off the Shelf podcast by @PauseBooks. The design features a white background with teal and pale lilac accents. A portrait of writer Anna Holdház, wearing a rust-coloured knitted jumper, is framed in a lilac border. Text reads: “Anna Holdház, Winner of the Lucy Cavendish Prize 2026.”

ALT On a white background with a pale lilac text panel and teal headings, the text reads: “Anna Holdház is a writer and artist based in London. With a background in film and anthropology, her work explores migration, grief, and the uncanny, drawing on her Eastern European and American inheritances. Her fiction and essays have appeared in Passengers Journal and Anthways. She is the winner of the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize 2026 for her manuscript A Geography of Escape. Aside from her art practice, Anna enjoys exploring unusual travel destinations, niche research topics, and all things esoteric, magickal, and strange.”