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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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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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.…
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Doug Johnstone – How I Write
I write fast and in short bursts to keep the energy of the prose up, and I write in the…
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Amanda Mitchison – Letter To My Younger Self
You were brave to the point of foolhardiness but put you in front of a keyboard and you were a…
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Maps To The Past
Andrew Martin favours the authenticity of old maps as a guide in writing historical fiction. When researching his historical novels,…
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Caitlin Davies – My Reading Habits
After a man broke into my home and tried to kill me I couldn’t read properly for five years. I…
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Donny O’Rourke & Chris Arthur
Donny O’Rourke celebrates Beltane in Ullapool, and Chris Arthur considers ‘odd object’ essays. Donny O’Rourke finds himself in the book-blessed…
Roopa Farooki – Writers Who Inspire Me
I felt that the characters in Tyler’s fiction were true to the tips of their fingers, knotted into their world…
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The Sea Urchin
Duncan Forbes explains his odd-looking writing talisman. Duncan Forbes explains the significance, and the very long history, of his strange-looking…
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Kevin Clarke – Why I Write
Having always been isolated I created imaginative worlds of my own, and I do so still. Oh dear! It all…