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Menna Elfyn – Why I Write
As a writer I’m always seeking to break out of solitary confinement by writing freely in the belief of the…
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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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Mark McCrum – How I Write
If my family is at home I escape to the British Library; there’s no point building up a head of…
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Shelley Weiner – Life-changing Literature
While I was cocooned in white suburbia, Ruth First, like me the daughter of East European Jewish immigrants, dared to…
Jonny Wright – Why I Write
I write to tell the racists that I am black, and I am Britain. But I write because the world…
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Anne Rouse – Why I Write
At thirty, I started to take writing seriously, and there in front of me I found the freedom again.
Chris Westwood – Letter To My Younger Self
Keep all your rejection slips to mark your progress because one day, if you are lucky, like me, a sympathetic…
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Rukhsana Ahmad – How I Write
Inspired or not, work had to be delivered. Caught in a game of double dare with deadlines I seldom blinked,…
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Linda Buckley-Archer – Why I Write
Why didn’t I write? The truth is I had too high a regard for the profession of writer to try.
Bethan Roberts – Why I Write
If I could write books I could make up things like sex scenes which would be the most fun a…
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Sally Pomme Clayton – Life-changing Literature
She moves into a houseboat where she writes and writes until the boat rots. The diaries were a form of…
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Wendy Moore – Letter To My Younger Self
You form a band with other girls and write song lyrics instead. You walk this flimsy tightrope; eager to do…
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Brian McAvera – Why I Write
I lived in Andersonstown, Belfast, I was teaching there. And what I saw incensed me, so I wrote about that.