Ali Knight – Life-changing Literature
In my spare time I would escape into any book I could find which meant that one day, by chance,…
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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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The Poor Cousin’s Defence
Brian Clegg wonders why Science Fiction is often regarded as the ‘poor cousin’ of other genres. Science Fiction is still…
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Joan Lennon – Writers Who Inspire Me
I am particularly inspired by writers who approach their work ever so slightly sideways. Just a step, not the whole…
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Penny Black
Penny Black speaks with Frances Byrnes about the influence of teenage summers in Vienna and learning German on her playwriting…
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Chris Arthur – My Reading Habits
Many of the books I now regard as foundational seem to have been discovered more or less by accident, often…
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Flightlines
Gerry Cambridge on the saving obsessions of birds and poetry. As a young teenager in rural Ayrshire, Gerry Cambridge became…
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Pippa Little – Letter To My Younger Self
In one particular light some stories end, in another they reach different conclusions or remain unfinished; neither of us is…
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Tobias Jones, part 2
Tobias Jones speaks with James McConnachie about communal living and the residential community he created. Tobias Jones speaks with James…
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The Antiquity
Helen Grant’s talisman bridges eras, in history and in life. Novelist Helen Grant shares her writing talisman, a reproduction statue…
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Kathleen Jones – Life-changing Literature
I found a reflection of my own life and ambition in Mansfield’s, bought a cheap edition of her short stories,…
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Mani, Misremembered
Elanor Dymott reflects on a place she has written about. Revisiting a beautiful spot on the Greek mainland after an…
Tim Walker – How I Write
As a late starter, approaching sixty, every book I produce has to count. So first I pick an issue I…