Lucinda Hawksley – The Best Advice I Ever Received
The clear and often poignant honesty that travellers will share with total strangers whom they know they will never see…
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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
Location And The Writer, part 5
In Location And The Writer, we visit a struggling seaside town, a childhood corner of Ireland, and London’s winding Thames.…
Nicholas Murray – Life-changing Literature
I didn’t know exactly what it meant in the sense of its paraphrasable content, but its potency was unignorable. Imagine…
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Audio
Amanda Swift – Letter To My Younger Self
You’ve said exactly what you wanted to say, and said it well, and the reader or viewer will be moved,…
Collected
Article
Inspiration Overload
Unused research: a concatenation of vice, gambling, Mormonism, hideous landscapes, a dead sea, padlocked beer — and the atomic bomb.…
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Audio
Sally Cline – How Writing Changes The Writer
Even trailblazing Simone de Beauvoir, who scorned conventional marriage, was not immune from jealousy, nor from retaliation in print. Even…
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Video
The Landscape
Sanjida O’Connell unpicks the threads that tie her to her writing talisman. Sanjida O’Connell unpicks the many threads that tie…
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Podcast
Donny O’Rourke & Mavis Cheek
Donny O’Rourke celebrates Imbolc in the East Neuk of Fife, and Mavis Cheek finds that writing comes easily. Donny O’Rourke…
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Audio
Ann Morgan – How I Write
I came to understand that bad words were only the beginning of the writing process. Brilliance lay not in writing…
Jonny Wright – The Best Advice I Ever Received
I was in the middle of a fruitless search for a black northern monologue to take back to drama school,…
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Article
What Are You Trying To Say?
Is ‘having a message’ or ‘wanting to say something’ old-fashioned and a detriment to the development of great art? ‘Having…
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Audio
Diana Hendry – Writers Who Inspire Me
The inspiration here has involved a movement from poetry to prose. This is something that pleases me immensely; one genre…