Chris Westwood – How Writing Changes The Writer
I’m avoiding the thousand yard stare of the blank page; I’m afraid of it. This is how it is before…
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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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Philippa Stockley – Writers Who Inspire Me
Wharton’s own life, so comfortable that she secretly bailed out Henry James in his old age. He never knew. I’ve…
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Abandoned Buildings
Rhiannon Tise on why she is obsessed with abandoned buildings. Rhiannon Tise’s fascination with abandoned buildings and derelict man-made spaces…
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Boxers And Bad Haircuts
Jon Hotten on big boxers, hairy rockers – and cricket! Jon Hotten takes us on a tour of ‘thwarted masculinity’…
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Caitlin Davies – Why I Write
Many times I’ve said I’ve had I enough, I’m getting a real job; I can’t take the uncertainty anymore. Then…
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Doug Johnstone
Doug Johnstone speaks with Cherise Saywell about circuitous careers, conflicted masculinity and Tartan Noir Doug Johnstone speaks with Cherise Saywell…
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Amanda Swift – My Reading Habits
We don’t have a name but we do have a reputation among local book groups as the most badly behaved.…
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Julian Evans – The Best Advice I Ever Received
New Guinea is not at all a childish dream; West Papua is not at all a childish dream. It is…
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When Memory Distils Into Fiction
Miranda Miller on a childhood experience that profoundly affected her. Miranda Miller describes how a troubling encounter in childhood has…
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Robyn Bolam – Writers Who Inspire Me
When I first heard a poet read, in a chemistry laboratory at Newcastle University, he was Ted Hughes; his gruff…
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Elanor Dymott & Alex Martin
Elanor Dymott explains how research nearly derailed her career, and Alex Martin considers action vs. contemplation. Elanor Dymott explains how…
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Lisa Evans – The Best Advice I Ever Received
At sixteen, they took me to the National where I fell in love with Rosencrantz, totally unaware that also on…