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Heather Dyer
Heather Dyer, in her writing week diary, lives the dream in a campervan — or does she? Heather Dyer is…
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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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Katherine Clements – How I Write
Magpie-like I collect these tantalising fragments. They stay with me, glittering at the edges of consciousness until I pick one…
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Joys Of Earth
Gerry Cambridge considers some of the joys of writing – and receiving – letters, and says you should never throw…
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Basir Sultan Kazmi – The Best Advice I Ever Received
Read the masters of the past, and learn how and how not, to write. If you think independently reading others…
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Kevin Clarke
Kevin Clarke speaks with Frances Byrnes about dramatic apprenticeships, adult education and finding his subjects. Kevin Clarke speaks with Frances…
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Ali Knight – Why I Write
If I had ever experienced a tenth of what I write about I would have long ago been consigned to…
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Two For the Road Revisited
Marcy Kahan considers how a film she first watched at the age of fourteen affected her choice of career. Stanley…
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Paul Dowswell – Why I Write
So I write about lives under totalitarian regimes, in the hope I’ll offer some sort of inoculation against political extremism.
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Jonathan Tulloch & Vox
Jonathan Tulloch satirically revisits a child’s Christmas in Cumbria, and three RLF writers share the best advice they ever received.…
Louise Foxcroft – My Reading Habits
I now find it difficult to read fiction while I am writing it; I’m looking at structure, style, technique, how…
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Building New York
Virginia Woolf and George Bernard Shaw make formidable heroes but it’s not their writing that most inspires Fraser Grace. A…
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David Spencer – Letter To My Younger Self
The self, looking for the self, is the perpetually failing attempt to locate some defining quantum of fixed personality, some…