Diana Hendry – Why I Write
The compulsion to write is paradoxically both a celebration of life, and a protest at its passing; not that I…
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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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Jonathan Tulloch & Mary Colson
Jonathan Tulloch revisits the end of the world, and Mary Colson confronts some ominous quiet. Jonathan Tulloch takes us to…
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Nicholas Murray – How I Write
The Aegean pebble on the desk, the mug with the silly legend, the quiver of blunt pencils, the wonky chair,…
Miranda Miller – Writers Who Inspire Me
Virginia Woolf’s fiction explores the inner lives of intelligent women with courage and originality; she searched for, and found, a…
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Rastaman Vibrations
Millie Murray on the legendary singer-songwriter who made her a writer. Listening to the music of Bob Marley as a…
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Elanor Dymott – My Reading Habits
Poetry is a great thing to give a novelist, I think. Very few of the volumes I own are ones…
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Jane Shilling
Jane Shilling speaks with Robin Blake about fox-hunting, botox and moving into fiction. Jane Shilling speaks with Robin Blake about…
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Anna Reynolds – The Best Advice I Ever Received
I’m sure it happens to people in other professions too, though.”You don’t want to open him up there, Doc; you…
Ben Musgrave – How Writing Changes The Writer
I almost always default to the Voyage and Return story; is this because this kind of story is a story…
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Writing Our Way Home
Penny Hancock on the need for writers to identify with place. Her mother’s worsening dementia made Penny Hancock realise how…
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Shelley Silas – Why I Write
For me, writing real stories or stories based on truth is a more responsible job; it requires skill and authenticity.…
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Poetry Break with Joanne Limburg
Poetry Break: Joanne Limburg and Julia Copus on poems by Matilde Blind. Joanne Limburg and our host Julia Copus discuss…