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I once witnessed the upper deck of a London bus fall silent in a collective attempt to follow the progress…
Gerry Cambridge on freelancing for Reader’s Digest as a young man. How writing poetry became a free imaginative space for…
I learned about waypoints, sky countries, meteoro-glyphs, flying by instruments only, and whiteouts; it’s not just a book about flying…
In ‘Writing vs Life: On Balance’, RLF writers speak about sustaining both real life and writing life, and whether art…
I like to sit and read at one of the narrow tables next to the floor-to-ceiling windows on North Front…
“Avoid the use of abstract nouns”, he said, “that’s what’s holding your poetry back”. It was a revelation. Now its…
Brian McCabe considers the importance or otherwise of acknowledging one’s influences. In the course of his writing career, Brian McCabe…
He stood up and toured the crowded shelves of his study, picking up a book here and a book there.…
Judy Brown speaks with Julia Copus about changing career and place in her writing. Judy Brown talks with Julia Copus…
Writing a novel feels like being an ultra-marathon runner, it’s going to be a gruelling slog to reach 90,000 words.…
Even though I have some sympathy for the dislocation you must have felt, I want to urge you to hurry.…
Sally Cline reflects on the way that water has shaped her writing life. From the early years of her writing…
