Chris Westwood – Why I Write
I sat there listening to my words echoing round the room, embarrassed to be the centre of attention, but secretly…
News & Features
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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Miranda France – How Writing Changes The Writer
I once witnessed the upper deck of a London bus fall silent in a collective attempt to follow the progress…
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‘Life’s Like That’
Gerry Cambridge on freelancing for Reader’s Digest as a young man. How writing poetry became a free imaginative space for…
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Elanor Dymott – Writers Who Inspire Me
I learned about waypoints, sky countries, meteoro-glyphs, flying by instruments only, and whiteouts; it’s not just a book about flying…
Collected
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Writing vs Life: On Balance
In ‘Writing vs Life: On Balance’, RLF writers speak about sustaining both real life and writing life, and whether art…
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Lizzie Collingham – My Reading Habits
I like to sit and read at one of the narrow tables next to the floor-to-ceiling windows on North Front…
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Neil Rollinson – The Best Advice I Ever Received
“Avoid the use of abstract nouns”, he said, “that’s what’s holding your poetry back”. It was a revelation. Now its…
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Under The Influence
Brian McCabe considers the importance or otherwise of acknowledging one’s influences. In the course of his writing career, Brian McCabe…
Alex Martin – Life-changing Literature
He stood up and toured the crowded shelves of his study, picking up a book here and a book there.…
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Judy Brown
Judy Brown speaks with Julia Copus about changing career and place in her writing. Judy Brown talks with Julia Copus…
Sanjida O’Connell – How I Write
Writing a novel feels like being an ultra-marathon runner, it’s going to be a gruelling slog to reach 90,000 words.…
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Rahila Gupta – Letter To My Younger Self
Even though I have some sympathy for the dislocation you must have felt, I want to urge you to hurry.…