John Greening – The Best Advice I Ever Received
Ted Hughes went on to stress how important it was to keep my creative energies at top pressure by living…
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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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Horatio Clare & Clare Pollard
Horatio Clare ponders the necessary pragmatism of the practising writer, and Clare Pollard celebrates the long tradition of nonsense verse.…
Kona Macphee – Why I Write
I lie silently as the last dregs of my once transcendent seriousness drain away. What I’m mostly feeling now is…
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My Secret Life
Sally Cline describes what it’s like to live in two cities on different sides of the Atlantic. For many years,…
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Chris Arthur – Why I Write
The truth is that this ageing RLF Fellow is not much surer why he does it than was the poetry-writing…
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Brian McCabe
Brian McCabe speaks with Geoff Hattersley about artistic mathematicians, serious humour and writing the worldview of a child. Brian McCabe…
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Jackie Wills – How I Write
If I move to my laptop too soon I find it cuts off experiment and somehow ‘sets’ the poem in…
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Oblique Strategies
Writers of a mixed heritage, argues Ray French, can have an advantage when it comes to exploring cultural and racial…
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Ruth Thomas – Why I Write
I didn’t want to write about grief, or jealousy; I wanted to write about someone shopping at Tesco and suddenly…
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John Keay, part 2
John Keay speaks with James McConnachie about relics of Empire, roving Scots and hectic book tours. John Keay speaks with…
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James McConnachie – Writers Who Inspire Me
Voice, for me, has to be a tool or it is nothing, and writing, for me, is not self-expression, it’s…
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There Is Always The Other Side…
Cherise Saywell on what a favourite novel means to her. Jean Rhys’s 1966 novel, Wide Sargasso Sea, captivated Cherise Saywell…