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Leila Rasheed
The Moomins suffered the same fate… Characters and plots are too gentle for older children, but the text is too…
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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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Shelley Silas – The Best Advice I Ever Received
Be original. Think of the obvious and then go in the opposite direction. Be open to surprises, challenge yourself, inspire…
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Stephanie Norgate
Stephanie Norgate speaks with Jane Draycott about dramatising a pioneering life and the landscapes of Sussex. Stephanie Norgate speaks with…
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Chris Westwood – Rejection
If I read through that folder’s contents now, I’d probably find a kind of dramatic structure, a story arc; obstacles…
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Sarah Duncan – How I Write
As I nested like a dormouse with all the pillows and cushions I could find, I discovered that I could…
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Gabriel Gbadamosi – Writer’s Block
I scribbled notes on pieces of paper. I’d leave them out overnight, and let slugs crawl over them. Whole words,…
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Mapping Stories
Bernie McGill on the pleasures of maps. Bernie McGill on how looking at maps offers insights into long-vanished worlds, enabling…
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Rhiannon Tise – Why I Write
It was my mother who dragged me to my first writing group. I was 17, and very against the idea;…
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Carina Rodney – Letter To My Younger Self
Don’t wait for the right commission, or agent, or reply, or accent, or background. None of that will happen. Don’t…
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Emylia Hall – How I Write
I believe very much in the spark, the little bit of magic sending a particular idea my way. I’m sure…
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Location And The Writer, part 12
Horatio Clare takes us to poet-haunted Hebden Bridge, Lucy Moore celebrates London by pedal, and Curtis Jobling re-imagines phantoms in…
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Sue Roe – My Reading Habits
I wanted access to people, places, cultures, different from my own; and reading, especially fiction, seemed to give me that.…