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Suzannah Dunn – Why I Write
What am I thinking of when I write? Why do I think I am doing it? I am bringing 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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Sarah Duncan – Letter To My Readers
I see writing for publication as a contract. I make up stuff that I hope will inform, entertain, scare, thrill…
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Carina Rodney – My Reading Habits
I joined the Barbara Pym Society and attended their conferences in Oxford, where I bought Pym swag and home-made quince…
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Doug Johnstone – Killing Your Darlings
When I’m in editing mode I almost can’t read other writers’ work, because everything feels overwritten. I can’t stop my…
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Christopher Woodall – The Writer As Outsider
My speech emerged so late, and so mangled, that it was experienced by others as either foreign or gibberish; in…
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Helen Kelly – The Writing / Life Balance
Different spaces. Different states. They’ll jostle and shoulder each other. Important stuff will get pushed out on either side. Different…
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Alan Jenkins – Letter To My Younger Self
If only you could have the friendship of fellow-poets, the respect of your peers! But all that’s some years in…
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Stuart Walton – The Writer As Outsider
There are male writers who think being a writer will impress the ladies, which it never does. Best say you’ve…
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Andy Jackson – The Writer And Technology
I’m not the kind of poet whose work is archivable in the conventional way. Only a forensic IT specialist would…
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Anna Wilson – How I Write
I became mildly obsessed – okay, not so mildly – with a friend who described herself as an ‘arch-planner’. I…
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Sophie Duffy – My Most Treasured Moments As A Writer
Names read out in reverse order. Ten, nine, eight. With each name, another swig of Bloody Mary. Seven, six, five.…
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Sarah Duncan – Killing Your Darlings
I whittled the cemeteries down to two. My editor was adamant — two was still too many. And of course…