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Lydia Syson – Why I Write
I like writing for young people because the books you read when you’re young, the ones you really care about,…
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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Library Tickets
Catherine O’Flynn conjures the library that made her a writer. Novelist Catherine O’Flynn recalls the smell of ‘old books, damp…
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Menna Elfyn – Why I Write
As a writer I’m always seeking to break out of solitary confinement by writing freely in the belief of the…
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On (Type-)Writing
Chris Westwood shares retro tech, creative routines and gothic writing beginnings. Chris Westwood shows off some retro tech, and shares…
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Marcelle Bernstein, part 2
Marcelle Bernstein speaks with Carole Angier about instinctive writing, research and her novels. Marcelle Bernstein speaks with Carole Angier about…
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Mark McCrum – How I Write
If my family is at home I escape to the British Library; there’s no point building up a head of…
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Contact
Poet Pascale Petit charts her obsession with a black jaguar in a Paris zoo. For four years, the poet Pascale…
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Shelley Weiner – Life-changing Literature
While I was cocooned in white suburbia, Ruth First, like me the daughter of East European Jewish immigrants, dared to…
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Harriet Castor
Harriet Castor speaks with Julia Copus about engaging young readers and inhabiting Henry VIII. Harriet Castor speaks with Julia Copus…
Jonny Wright – Why I Write
I write to tell the racists that I am black, and I am Britain. But I write because the world…
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The Unwritten
Keith Tutt considers the great unfinished novels, and what he might yet leave behind. Writers have after-lives, lived out in…
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Anne Rouse – Why I Write
At thirty, I started to take writing seriously, and there in front of me I found the freedom again.