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Lorna Thorpe
Lorna Thorpe speaks with Geoff Hattersley about starting late as a writer, her wild youth, literary influences and her six…
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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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Neil Rollinson – How I Write
These fanciful accounts seek to minimise the role of the artist or the writer as if they were merely a…
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‘Only Connect’
John Greening reflects on poetic coincidence. Can coincidence, that seemingly magical conjunction of events, play a part in poetry? John…
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Lynn Knight – Writers Who Inspire Me
I write biography, social history and memoir and yet I have learned from them all; factual writing borrowing some of…
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Charles Boyle
Charles Boyle speaks with Julia Copus about his female alter-ego, the role of small presses, and the abiding influence of…
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Geoff Barker – Why I Write
Having left a completed draft well alone for a month or more I go back, cooler, chastened, ready to repent…
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All At Sea
Roy Bainton describes his battle to make a film version of the life of Captain Kidd. Long before Pirates of…
Alicia Foster – Writers Who Inspire Me
A Victorian Gothic villa which I immediately recognised because it’s on a hill in my home town of Folkestone. I…
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Process And Pro Tips
Wendy Oberman on her writing process and a pro screenwriting tip. Wendy Oberman describes her writing process and shares a…
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Break Point: Cherise Saywell & Cynthia Rogerson
In our new ‘Break Point’ series, Cherise Saywell and Cynthia Rogerson describe what nearly sank their writing careers, and how…
Chris Arthur – Life-changing Literature
Literature’s influence on us is at once less dramatic yet far deeper than the simplistic process implied by suggesting that…
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A World Of Reading
For a year, Ann Morgan read only books originally written in languages other than English — and made some surprising…