Hugh Stoddart – Why I Write
I’d never been at ease with the chemistry of theatre. With a film it’s a finished thing regardless of who’s…
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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.
Collected
Article
Blurb-Writing Blues
Chris Arthur struggles with writing his own bio, and criticises the literary bragging that seems to be required. Chris Arthur…
Collected
Audio
Shelley Weiner – The Best Advice I Ever Received
Liberation isn’t all that’s needed to achieve the long-haul goal of a novel, it takes discipline too. Liberation isn’t all…
Collected
Podcast
Jon Mayhew, part 1
Jon Mayhew speaks with John Siddique about ghost stories, teaching and writing by accident. Jon Mayhew speaks with John Siddique…
Collected
Audio
Alex Martin – Letter To My Younger Self
I’m old enough to be your father but in fact I’m your son; the child is father to the man.…
Rukhsana Ahmad – Life-changing Literature
Alice turned me into an addict. I became an avid reader, always in search of fantasies; science fiction, adventure, mysteries…
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Article
Taking Up Residence
Tania Hershman describes her experiences of being a writer-in-residence, from a biochemistry lab to a cemetery. Tania Hershman appreciates the…
Nicholas Murray – Why I Write
I am writing to some extent about a city that no longer exists, a city of the mind, and tangled…
Collected
Podcast
Location And The Writer, part 6
In Location And The Writer, we visit the mysterious Forest of Dean, the ambivalent pleasures of Greenwich, and a museum…
Kathleen Jones – How Writing Changes The Writer
Not so much touch-typing as hammer-throwing; what that did for my finger joints I am only now beginning to find…
Collected
Audio
Wendy Moore – My Reading Habits
I still employ that childhood sweet-shop approach of chancing upon an author I like then consuming all her, or his,…
Collected
Article
Therefore Farewell
Kevin Clarke discovers the history of the English court echoes his experience of the cut-throat world of television drama. After…