Katharine Quarmby – How Writing Changes The Writer
Their care and attention, setting words on paper, makes you feel that thrill of recognition; you know with certainty that…
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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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Podcast
Meaghan Delahunt
Meaghan Delahunt speaks with Cherise Saywell about revolutionary beginnings, her physical drafting process and Colonial perceptions. Meaghan Delahunt speaks with…
Ann Morgan – My Reading Habits
These days it fills me with joy rather than a kind of dread; I’ve realised that I’ll be reading the…
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Video
What’s Your Favourite Book In Translation?
Writers discuss their favourite book in translation. Ali Knight, Robin Blake, Sally Kindberg, Vayu Naidu, Caitlin Davies, Sarah Ardizzone and…
Brian Keaney – The Best Advice I Ever Received
I took a page of writing that I felt really good about and put it in a drawer; a week…
Collected
Article
Pepys: Spirit Of His Age
John Pilkington on why the great diarist Samuel Pepys inspires him. As a writer of historical fiction, John Pilkington has…
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Rukhsana Ahmad – Writers Who Inspire Me
Most of the Victorians I loved have lost their shine too, for me, except George Eliot; her luminous sense of…
Collected
Podcast
Mimi Khalvati
Mimi Khalvati speaks with John Greening about Persian origins, abstraction and constrained forms and co-founding the Poetry School. Mimi Khalvati…
Lizzie Collingham – The Best Advice I Ever Received
Ever since, at the age of five, I embarked on my career as a compulsive reader, I have been learning…
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Kevin Clarke – Letter To My Younger Self
You wonder, will this house and this time one day become your 1930s? Existing only in memory? You wonder, will…
Collected
Article
Spilling Off The Page
Deborah Gearing on working with visual artists. As the only writer in a group of visual artists taking part in…
Diana Hendry – Why I Write
The compulsion to write is paradoxically both a celebration of life, and a protest at its passing; not that I…