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Treasured Islands
Kate Rhodes on her search for the perfect island writing retreat. Kate Rhodes on her search for the perfect island…
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Check out the latest news from the RLF, WritersMosaic highlights, and Collected – our collection of interviews, reflections and articles exploring the literary life and world of writers today.
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Zoë Marriott – A Day In The Life
I’ll do about thirty minutes of yoga, which puts me into a nice, calm frame of mind. But if I…
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Kerry Young – Writer’s Block
Sometimes a story moves sideways, or you have flashbacks. The important thing is to keep the narrative flowing. Sometimes a…
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Andrew Cowan, part 1
Andrew Cowan speaks with Bethan Roberts about growing up working class, loving being a student and his three-phase writing process.…
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Debjani Chatterjee – The Best Advice I Ever Received
The famous British psychoanalyst and paediatrician D. W. Winnicott argued that parents do not need to be perfect; they need…
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Stephen Mollett – Being Genre Fluid
Radio allowed me to develop a poetic and humorous ambiguity. In the screenplay, this proves difficult to maintain. Radio allowed…
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Lynn Knight – The Writing Life
Elizabeth Taylor is often described as a writer’s writer and there are many lessons, and warnings, tucked inside her work.…
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My Multigenerational Life
Despite longing for a ‘room of her own’, Deborah Chancellor finds unexpected inspiration in her busy multigenerational household. Deborah Chancellor…
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Julian Sayarer – Letter To My Readers
I write wholly for you, and a craven need for your approval, but at the same time I do not…
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Location And The Writer, part 20
Alyson Hallett visits starlings in Somerset, and Tom Connolly takes us to a tiny fishing village in Scotland. Alyson Hallett…
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Vayu Naidu – The Writer And The City
My beat across London takes me North and South and East. Each side has a map of variations on language,…
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Trish Cooke – A Day In The Life
With Tales From The Caribbean, my writing day was broken up into researching and summarising the stories, before I could…