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Sophia Bennett – Why I Write
Those worlds saved me during the early, lonely days, and I decided back then that I wanted to create my…
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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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Writers In Lockdown, part 2
Geoff Barker, Doug Johnstone and Donny O’Rourke share their lockdown experiences. Geoff Barker shares his diary of week 9; Doug…
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Amanda Dalton – Writer’s Block
One driver waits, as if for traffic lights to change. Behind the wheel, she meditates, believes the road will clear…
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Philippa Stockley – Writer’s Block
Gardener’s block? Let’s try that: “I simply can’t mow this lawn; I don’t know where to start! How do you…
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Alyson Hallett & Donny O’Rourke
Alyson Hallett sees her words carved into stone, while Donny O’Rourke considers the stone of Glasgow’s classic tenements. Alyson Hallett…
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Lizzie Nunnery – My Reading Habits
The task of reading is to form an order from this confusion; to arrange these influences into a new beginning.…
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Sanjida O’Connell – The Best Advice I Ever Received
Watching my writing buddies give and accept positive feedback with humility and a clear idea of their own writing, has…
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What’s Your Favourite Children’s Book?
Writers discuss their favourite children’s book. Ali Knight, Nicholas Murray, Vayu Naidu, Sally Kindberg, Robin Blake, Caitlin Davies and Sarah…
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Gabriel Gbadamosi – The Classic Book I’d Like To Re-write
I would take a leaf out of Achebe’s own classic novel Things Fall Apart, in which the final paragraph switches…
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John Harrison – How Writing Changes The Writer
I learned to drive power boats for cruise ships in Antarctica to earn time to write… I had changed into…
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Writers In Lockdown
Bashabi Fraser, Bill Kirton and Cynthia Rogerson on their lockdown experience. Bashabi Fraser misses her grandson; Bill Kirton gets lost…
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Sally Cline – Writers Who Inspire Me
Virginia used to impress and inspire me to write well; to choose every word for its power and beauty. Now…