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Finding The Letters
Chance can play a part in researching a book — as Rick Stroud has reason to know. Chance encounters and…
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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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Harry Ritchie – Why I Write
All of my reasons are personal, and selfish. It’s absorbing, challenging and so on. It also sounds cool, and there’s…
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Cynthia Rogerson
Cynthia Rogerson speaks with James McConnachie about ensuring realism, disliking positive discrimination and enduring chick-lit covers. Cynthia Rogerson speaks with…
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Sue Teddern – Writers Who Inspire Me
What made my admiration of Alan Plater complete was that there were a number of years when both he and…
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‘A flower will never be just a flower again…’
How Beatrice Colin found inspiration in a Scottish garden Research for a novel led Beatrice Colin to Argyllshire’s Benmore Gardens,…
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From Newsprint To Novels
Mark Piggott’s journey from school leaver to novelist, via journalism and a no-beer year. Mark Piggott takes us on his…
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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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…