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Maria McCann – How I Write
There’s a wayward part of me that resists plotting and wants to just plunge in. But if I yield to…
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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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Location And The Writer, part 7
In Location And The Writer, we visit a multicultural corner of London, and an inadequately celebratory Birkenhead. Roopa Farooki takes…
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Anita Mason – Letter To My Younger Self
And do you think you don’t need to learn how to dissect a frog because you have discovered T. S.…
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Neil Rollinson – Writers Who Inspire Me
How does one describe a baby, or anything else for that matter; how forensically, how deeply, does one investigate? How…
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A Diary Of Retreats
A Cornish cottage, a Tuscan island, a wooded valley, Emylia Hall seeks the solitude from which her writing can spring.…
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What Book Are You Reading At The Moment?
Writers discuss the book they are currently reading. Caitlin Davies, Nicholas Murray, Vayu Naidu, Sally Kindberg, Sarah Ardizzone, Robin Blake…
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James Woodall – Why I Write
The writer in me seemed to want to go one step further and turn this response into words; readable, informative,…
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Amanda Mitchison
Amanda Mitchison speaks with John Siddique about her writing family, journalism in Cairo and the Vatican, and missing Scotland. Amanda…
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Katharine Quarmby – My Reading Habits
A family that reads together passes down a wonderful inheritance; words enveloped in love, and thus given meaning. Reading habits…
Lucinda Hawksley – How Writing Changes The Writer
We look back on our ancestors and especially our female ancestors or impoverished ancestors from a standpoint of extraordinary privilege.…
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Writing History, Writing Fiction
Morgen Witzel explores the difference between history and historical fiction, from information to entertainment. Morgen Witzel compares history and historical…
Lizzie Collingham – Letter To My Younger Self
At home I felt trapped, powerless to change the dreadful circumstances and unable to leave. My trips to York provided…