Doug Johnstone – Letter To My Younger Self
Space is still exciting and you wouldn’t believe some of the discoveries scientists have made. But sadly, aliens still haven’t…
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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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Dipo Agboluaje
Dipo Agboluaje speaks with Gabriel Gbadamosi about growing up in Britain and Nigeria, the themes of his plays and the…
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Siân Rees – How I Write
I am no longer young or teetotal. I have a respectable number of friends, and a couple of dependants, and…
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Marcy Kahan – The Best Advice I Ever Received
I went back to my hotel room, leafed through the mound of tattered pages on the desk, and wished with…
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Rejection
Editor James McConnachie on the delicate art of rejection… As editor of The Author, James McConnachie has had to develop…
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Brian Keaney – Why I Write
I carried around in my head a whole pantheon of dead family members, to each of whom a story was…
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Ann Morgan
Ann Morgan speaks with Caroline Sanderson about reading the world, nature vs nurture and the benefits of parenthood. Ann Morgan…
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Elanor Dymott – Life-changing Literature
As darkness fell on each painful night, I reconstructed the book from memory, trying to get a little further each…
Anne Wilson – Writers Who Inspire Me
Quality TV drama writers inspire me to script scenes exactly as they happen in my head and to learn from…
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The Name Game
Clare Bayley on the importance of getting your characters’ names right. Clare Bayley reflects on the process of choosing names…
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Andrew Lycett – Why I Write
Being able to spend three years in the company of extraordinary characters such as Ian Fleming, Rudyard Kipling, Dylan Thomas,…
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Max Eilenberg
Max Eilenberg speaks with John Siddique about love in children’s fiction, working in publishing and his musical passion. Max Eilenberg…