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Wendy Moore – How I Write
I feel a kick in the stomach, a tug at the heart, and I know that this germ of an…
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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.
Julia Copus – Why I Write
I was always envious of the flute section in the orchestra at school; a row of neat-looking, trendy girls who…
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On Writing Residencies
Katherine Stansfield on her experiences of being a live-in writer in a public institution. No two writing residencies are the…
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Sally Cline – Writers Who Inspire Me
Diane (Middlebrook)’s study, which crucially extended the right to examine private life, was a turning point in late twentieth century…
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Location And The Writer, part 1
In new series ‘Location and the Writer’, we visit a Cumbrian hill-farm, a suburban shopping centre and a literary capital…
Elanor Dymott – The Best Advice I Ever Received
She’d come across the opening buried deep in another chapter. Re-reading that early version and drawing up her plan, the…
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Basir Sultan Kazmi – Writers Who Inspire Me
I read Macbeth first and happened to learn half of it by heart. This was Shakespeare’s achievement not of my…
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The LP
Cliff Yates on why a 1970s LP record still has him in a spin. Cliff Yates on special Sunday evenings,…
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Top Girls In Space
Anna Reynolds on writing a play about pioneering women. When asked to write a play about pioneering and adventurous women,…
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Roopa Farooki – How Writing Changes The Writer
When I was writing my fourth novel I had two toddlers but I was trapped inside my story; I was…
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Jonny Wright
Jonny Wright speaks with John Siddique about filling gaps in theatre repertoire, misfit protagonists and Hip Hop. Jonny Wright talks…
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Linda Buckley-Archer – Life-changing Literature
I was oblivious of any heavy-handed religious symbolism, I simply grew to love Lewis’s alternative world. As a child, even…