- Toast talks to Oliver Balch about life in Hay (Toast magazine)
- Editor to Author: Walter Donohue talks to Oliver Balch about adapting to life in rural Wales (Faber & Faber website)
- Anti-establishment Hay-on-Wye is a breeding ground for independents (The Guardian)
- Oliver Balch introduces Under the Tump: Sketches of Life on the Welsh Borders