Donny O’Rourke – Letter To My Younger Self
At 17, you are Catholic-Boy’s School shy of girls and drink; don’t become a Donny-Juan.
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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.
Suburban Bliss
How Charles Jennings finds solace in his suburban surroundings. The suburbs have often been dismissed as dull, but for Charles…
Collected
Podcast
Esther Selsdon
Esther Selsdon’s audio diary features Stalin memorabilia, matchgirls strikes and Soviet cinema. Esther Selsdon shares a late summer writing week…
Collected
Audio
Nicola Baldwin – How I Write
Your idea hovers out of reach. It offers hope, and threatens despair; there’s a story here, it whispers, but are…
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Audio
John Greening – My Reading Habits
Those heaps of books in the living room left as if to mark my territory, with their scruffy bookmarks, torn…
Collected
The Playwright And The Visual Arts
When Brian McAvera came to write his sequence of plays on ‘Picasso’s women’, he realised that his approach to each…
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Article
The Playwright And The Visual Arts
Brian McAvera describes how he came to write his series of plays on the women in Picasso’s life. When Brian…
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Audio
Duncan Forbes – Life-changing Literature
I was a Betjemaniac; I wore a Larkin smile. My writing desk was Auden-esque, til Yeats became my style.
Collected
Podcast
Debjani Chatterjee
Debjani Chatterjee speaks with Frances Byrnes about medical trauma and community writing work. Debjani Chatterjee speaks with Frances Byrnes about…
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Audio
Christina Koning – My Reading Habits
This certainly hasn’t declined since the days when I read forbidden books under the bedclothes, but you could say I’ve…
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Video
The Pen
Cherise Saywell’s writing talisman is a pen — but it’s one she never writes with. Cherise Saywell introduces her writer’s…
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Article
Losing The Freestyle Battle, Winning The Lyrical War
Jonny Wright explores how to be a rap poet To the uninitiated, there may not seem very much connection between…