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News & Features

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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Tina Pepler – Why I Write

My sisters said I had indeed written the poems. I can’t remember what happened next, it was all a blur…

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Trevor Day – Why I Write

As an itinerant marine biologist, I was washed ashore in London wondering what a marine scientist might do more than…

Illustration by Fran Pulido of woman by window thinking what to write with book birds flying past window.
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William Palmer – Why I Write

My childhood in the fifties was accompanied by the smells of papers and ink, and the clang and hiss of…

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Neil Hanson – Why I Write

I write because everyone’s got a book in them, and I want to get all mine published before the rush…

Illustration by Fran Pulido of two books that look like open books next to a microphone.
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Esther Selsdon – Why I Write

The difference between me and my neighbour’s friend, I guess, was that, later that evening when I went home, I…

Illustration by Fran Pulido of woman by window thinking what to write with book birds flying past window.
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Philip Caveney – Why I Write

My version culminated in Attila and the Pope having a duel to the death outside the gates of Rome; as…

Illustration by Fran Pulido of two books that look like open books next to a microphone.
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David Spencer – Why I Write

You’re a man now lad, you’ve got to be strong for your mother. So that’s what I did. I stood…