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Clare Shaw
Clare Shaw speaks with Geoff Hattersley about poetry, mental illness and her drive to find light in the dark. Clare…
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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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Kevin Clarke – The Best Advice I Ever Received
The problem when you start writing seriously is that no one can really tell you how to do it.
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‘I know exactly how you feel’
Anna Reynolds describes the challenges of turning real lives into drama. Working with a group of young carers, on a…
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Katharine Quarmby
Katharine Quarmby spends a diary week researching and editing her first novel, a work of historical fiction. Katharine Quarmby spends…
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Chris Westwood – How I Write
In that shed I wrote like the wind, hitting my thousand words by midday so that I could get out…
Wendy Moore – The Best Advice I Ever Received
Some people teach with harshness, but she preferred to teach with love. I try to remember to treat myself the…
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Double Vision
Miranda Miller’s approach to writing her fiction involves an idiosyncratic way of ‘seeing’ the past. As a writer of historical…
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Writing And Beginning
Zoë Marriott on the magic of books, snatched moments of writing and Evil Cinderella. Zoë Marriott on discovering the magic…
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Kerry Young
Kerry Young speaks with Frances Byrnes about being Chinese-Jamaican, her father’s gangster life and her mother’s Catholicism. Kerry Young speaks…
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Sally Cline – How I Write
My rigid writing routines are based on the belief that the repetition of rituals itself is crucial to the writing…
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Jonny Wright – Life-changing Literature
I don’t know how many elements of Kwei-Armah’s real life this play had in, but it made me think I…
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Haunted By The Brontës
Katharine McMahon describes her fascination with the Brontë sisters, and the way their lives have been interwoven with her own.…