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Anita Mason – My Reading Habits
I love researching and I sometimes wonder if I choose a subject for a novel so I can read about…
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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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Alex Martin – How Writing Changes The Writer
Observing and imagining so intensely gives writers an infinitely absorbing mental life which can isolate us from others. Observing and…
Trish Cooke – Letter To My Younger Self
You want to know the most amazing thing? Those two, up on your bedroom wall, Donny and Starsky, one day…
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Two For A Tenner
Karen Wallace on taking her books to market. Karen Wallace describes her experiences selling her books on a market stall,…
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Nicholas Murray – My Reading Habits
Reading is an adventure, a glorious freedom. Follow your instincts, enjoy yourself; don’t worry about those gaps. Reading is an…
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Tiffany Murray – Life-changing Literature
Alice Walker’s generosity in celebrating what had come before, what had ignited her, opened up a world for readers. Alice…
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Helena Drysdale, part 1
Helena Drysdale speaks with James McConnachie about gender in travel writing, cancer and chasing the family past. Helena Drysdale speaks…
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Lucy Jago – The Best Advice I Ever Received
Great writers… write how they want. If they want to tell without showing, they do. Read Henry James if you…
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Mark Illis – Writers Who Inspire Me
I should also mention Stan Lee. Spiderman caught criminals and saved lives but had trouble getting a girlfriend. I should…
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Typeface
Martin Sketchley on his enduring love affair with typewriters. Martin Sketchley describes his lifelong love affair with typewriters, and why,…
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Paul Mason – Why I Write
iIt’s also odd that the level of detail about one particular swimmer didn’t raise a flag, but how would an…
Gabriel Gbadamosi – Letter To My Readers
One moment I was looking at the huge, empty, stone sarcophagus, its heavy lid propped open with rocks; the next,…