diff --git a/lib/Polysemy/Test/Run.hs b/lib/Polysemy/Test/Run.hs
--- a/lib/Polysemy/Test/Run.hs
+++ b/lib/Polysemy/Test/Run.hs
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 import Path.IO (canonicalizePath, createTempDir, getCurrentDir, getTempDir, removeDirRecur)
 import Polysemy.Fail (Fail, failToError)
 import Polysemy.Resource (Resource, bracket, resourceToIOFinal)
-import Polysemy.Writer (runLazyWriter)
+import Polysemy.Writer (runWriter)
 import System.IO.Error (IOError)
 
 import Polysemy.Test.Data.Hedgehog (Hedgehog, liftH)
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
   Members [Error TestError, Embed IO] r =>
   Sem r (Path Abs Dir)
 createTemp =
-  fromEither @TestError =<< (embed @IO . runExceptT) do
+  fromEither . mapLeft TestError =<< tryAny do
     systemTmp <- getTempDir
     createTempDir systemTmp "polysemy-test-"
 
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@
   Sem (Fail : Error TestError : Hedgehog m : r) a ->
   Sem r (Journal, Either Failure a)
 unwrapLiftedTestT =
-  runLazyWriter .
+  runWriter .
   runError .
   rewriteHedgehog .
   raiseUnder2 .
diff --git a/polysemy-test.cabal b/polysemy-test.cabal
--- a/polysemy-test.cabal
+++ b/polysemy-test.cabal
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 -- see: https://github.com/sol/hpack
 
 name:           polysemy-test
-version:        0.3.1.7
+version:        0.3.1.8
 synopsis:       Polysemy effects for testing
 description:    Please see the README on Github at <https://github.com/tek/polysemy-test>
 category:       Test
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@
       UndecidableInstances
       UnicodeSyntax
       ViewPatterns
-  ghc-options: -Wall
+  ghc-options: -Wall -Wredundant-constraints -Wunused-packages
   build-depends:
       base >=4.12 && <5
     , containers
@@ -181,23 +181,15 @@
       UndecidableInstances
       UnicodeSyntax
       ViewPatterns
-  ghc-options: -Wall -threaded -rtsopts -with-rtsopts=-N
+  ghc-options: -Wall -Wredundant-constraints -Wunused-packages -threaded -rtsopts -with-rtsopts=-N
   build-depends:
       base >=4.12 && <5
-    , containers
-    , either
-    , hedgehog >=1.0.2
-    , path >=0.7
-    , path-io >=0.2
-    , polysemy >=1.3
+    , hedgehog
+    , path
+    , polysemy
     , polysemy-test
-    , relude >=0.7
-    , string-interpolate >=0.1
     , tasty
-    , tasty-hedgehog >=1.0.0.2
-    , template-haskell
     , text
-    , transformers
   mixins:
       base hiding (Prelude)
     , polysemy-test hiding (Polysemy.Test.Prelude)