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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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Harry Ritchie – How I Write

I think I would rather read the Shades of Grey trilogy that re-read one of my novels. Wait a minute,…

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Regi Claire – Why I Write

Perhaps you were never young? Perhaps you came into existence fully fledged as a know all? But perhaps you were…

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Tania Hershman – Why I Write

For the first forty-four years of my life I’ve always felt in some way or other, myself, wrong. For the…

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Lucy Flannery – Why I Write

I was constructing narrative long before I could actually write it. If no one ever read or performed my work…

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Neil Rollinson – How I Write

These fanciful accounts seek to minimise the role of the artist or the writer as if they were merely a…

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Geoff Barker – Why I Write

Having left a completed draft well alone for a month or more I go back, cooler, chastened, ready to repent…

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Wendy Wallace – Why I Write

She recited poems to me that she’d learned at school before leaving at 14 to tend to soldiers returning wounded…