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Chris Westwood – Letter To My Readers
Where do the ideas come from? It seems you haven’t noticed. I only ever had one good idea, and I…
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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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Voices From The Past
Leigh Russell asks whether modern writers can ever create authentic historical voices. Leigh Russell describes writing her first historical novel…
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Lucy Moore – Why I Write
They lived in the present tense, without any sense of their future fates, just as we do. Sunlight shone on…
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What’s Your Desert Island Book?
Writers discuss their desert island book. Ade Solanke, Mahendra Solanki, Mirza Waheed, Nii Ayikwei Parkes, Rukhsana Ahmad and Brian Keaney…
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Kathleen Jones – Being Genre Fluid
Whoever defined genres, it can’t have been a writer. You can’t fit creativity into a straightjacket and tell your imagination…
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Cherise Saywell
Cherise Saywell speaks with Doug Johnstone about discovering writing, her strong sense of place, clean prose and stories versus novels.…
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Ann Morgan – Letter To My Younger Self
That novel you spend eighteen months redrafting in your mid-twenties? You can’t even remember what you did with the manuscript.…
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Caroline Brothers – The Writer As Outsider
Writers don’t need to be prisoners, or exiles, or even cursed by elements of their own society to feel an…
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Leigh Russell – My Reading Habits
Shy as a child, books became my shield from life, as well as an escape, and I read my way…
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Scientific Outsider Syndrome
Brian Clegg on bridging the communication gap between practicing scientists and the general public. Brian Clegg on his experience as…
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Robert Hudson – How I Write
I try to say what needs saying, today, as well as I possibly can say it — however bad it…
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Paul Dowswell
I’ve written two novels about the Great War and both of them were inspired by one of the most haunting…