Chris Westwood – The Best Advice I Ever Received
I found it so much easier to pick up the next day where I left off, to finish what I…
News & Features
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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Cliff Yates
Cliff Yates speaks with Geoff Hattersley about the journey from hating school to teaching it, and shares a little poetic…
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Christie Dickason – How Writing Changes The Writer
As a housewife, I fail; as a writer, I need bad housekeeping.
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How Poetry Gets Written
How do poets cope with the blank page? Neil Rollinson offers some suggestions. All writers are familiar with the horrors…
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David Kennedy – Letter To My Younger Self
Beginning writers should write about what they suspect, what they imagine, not what they know.
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My Favourite Book, part 1
Five RLF writers share their all-time favourite books, and explain why they matter. Cliff Yates, Jeremy Seal, Debjani Chatterjee, Peter…
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Cherise Saywell – How I Write
Every day is a writing day, so long as I put pen to paper, even for five minutes.
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To Go Or Not To Go
Sue Purkiss weights up the pros and cons of going to places you’re writing about. Sue Purkiss wonders whether research…
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Ben Musgrave – The Best Advice I Ever Received
What can you see as you look at the universe of your play? What structures are there? What natural features?
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Ray French
Ray French speaks with Frances Byrnes about Welsh roots, Irish diasporas and writerly voice-finding. Ray French speaks with Frances Byrnes…
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Clare Pollard – Letter To My Younger Self
You’ll measure your growing fame in invites to do things for free; from publishers, organisers, students, and universities.
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Islands
How Doug Johnstone’s love of islands inspired his writing. Ever since he first fell in love with all things insular,…