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Rhiannon Tise – A Day In The Life
I am definitely not one of those people who can get up before everyone else and work for three hours.…
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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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Fridays Behind Bars
Simon Booker on his experience as writer in residence at HMP Grendon. Simon Booker describes how a stint as writer…
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Dyan Sheldon – The Future Of Literature
Watching a film or TV programme, no matter how good it may be, is a passive activity… Reading is active.…
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What’s Your Favourite Children’s Book?
Writers discuss their favourite children’s book. Kerry Young, Colin Grant, Debjani Chatterjee MBE, Rahila Gupta, Michael McMillan and Mimi Khalvati…
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Judith Allnatt – My Reading Habits
I’m also very keen on reading work in translation, as the translator often has to work hard to render the…
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Shelley Harris, part 1
Shelley Harris speaks with Bethan Roberts about leaving South Africa, fear of failure and sudden fame via TV. Shelley Harris…
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Ann Morgan – Being Genre Fluid
Crime fiction, I learned, was a broad church. If anyone was guilty of making a miscalculation about what it should…
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Caroline Brothers – Life-changing Literature
There was always more to marvel at. The creation of emotion. The uncanny beauty of a phrase upon the page.…
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Martin Sketchley – The Writer As Outsider
In my role as Royal Literary Fund fellow, I again find myself an outsider; inhabiting an interesting hinterland as neither…
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My Darling Temeraire
John Harrison on a famous ship, painted by a famous artist. John Harrison describes the last voyage of the Temeraire,…
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Leila Rasheed – Life-changing Literature
The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan became the first book I had ever read that put…
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Robert Hudson – The Best Advice I Ever Received
No advice has ever influenced my writing a fraction as much as an anecdote I almost certainly have got wrong,…