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Hugh Stoddart – How I Write
If scripts were changed so little and yet could be so successful, then is my work really better now because,…
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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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Robyn Marsack, part 1
Robyn Marsack speaks with Cherise Saywell about translating Nicolas Bouvier, and the translation challenges of prose vs poetry. Robyn Marsack…
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Sally Cline – Life-changing Literature
Loving a person can make one vulnerable, dependent and often terribly silly; loving a book can make you strong. Loving…
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Yvonne Coppard – Letter To My Younger Self
Remember when you were a kid and your friends thought you were a bit weird? Well, guess what? You are…
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Harnessing The Dream
How dreams and the unconscious can create narrative structure. Like many young writers, Lizzie Nunnery resisted the idea that literary…
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Hilary Davies – How Writing Changes The Writer
Crucially, it changes the way you behave. This involves being anti-social; the fact you regularly have to go into a…
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Pippa Little
Pippa Little speaks with Geoff Hattersley about growing up in Africa and Scotland, writing approaches and interrupted education. Pippa Little…
Chris Westwood – My Reading Habits
The novel I believed did not want to be written suddenly wrote itself right to the end in a matter…
Lucy Jago – Writers Who Inspire Me
Reading the book as a student in Thatcher’s London it subtly but perfectly reflected the culture around me. Material possessions…
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The Settle Bed
Bernie McGill uncovers the touching family story behind a famous poem. The gift of a poem from Seamus Heaney to…
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Amanda Swift – The Best Advice I Ever Received
Like many writers I write best when I care about my characters because if I don’t care about them, how…
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Location And The Writer, part 8
In Location and the Writer, we visit an historic library in the Scottish countryside, and an equally historic Cambridge college.…