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Bethan Roberts – Rejection
The worst thing about that first rejection wasn’t that I’d been turned down by Oxford, it was that it made…
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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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A Little Learning Is A Dangerous Thing
Marnie Riches considers the dark side of research. Marnie Riches considers the dark side of research and its effects on…
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Elanor Dymott – Letter To My Younger Self
Don’t, on replacing the recycling bin, notice the complete stories of Flannery O’Connor resting on the kitchen table, and think…
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What’s Your Favourite Book In Translation?
Writers discuss their favourite book in translation. Leila Rasheed, Penny Black, Jonny Wright, Shelley Silas, Gabriel Gbadamosi, Sanjida O’Connell and…
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Catherine O’Flynn – How I Write
I decided enough was enough. I was going to write this novel in the right order, starting at the beginning.…
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Andrew Martin – Marketing And Me
I don’t know what the marketing departments of publishers expect when they send out the press release for a new…
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Stephen Sharkey & Bill Kirton
Stephen Sharkey explains why adapting novels for the stage is a great idea, and Bill Kirton spends an enchanted evening…
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Tania Hershman – Being Genre Fluid
I was playing. I take play very seriously. I was wrapping prose around poems, then freeing the poems. I was…
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Robert Hudson
Different stories feel like they require different storytelling registers and so when I am working out whatever story I want…
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Courttia Newland – The Writing Life
It’s quite normal for me to be having a conversation, or bathing my three year old daughter, only to be…
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Basic Instincts
Lee Weatherly on the value of writerly intuition. Lee Weatherly on the value of writerly intuition and how professional experience…
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Lucy Lethbridge – The Best Advice I Ever Received
However tempting the urge to retrace and re-examine, suppress that urge and track onward to the end. You need the…