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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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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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,…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…
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Nigel Cliff, part 1
Nigel Cliff speaks with James McConnachie about Van Cliburn and Vasco da Gama, and history’s turning points. Nigel Cliff speaks…
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Shelley Weiner – How Writing Changes The Writer
There’s no end, no tedium, in a lifelong love affair with language, just small endings when you reach the conclusion…