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Brian McAvera describes how he came to write his series of plays on the women in Picasso’s life. When Brian…
I was a Betjemaniac; I wore a Larkin smile. My writing desk was Auden-esque, til Yeats became my style.
Debjani Chatterjee speaks with Frances Byrnes about medical trauma and community writing work. Debjani Chatterjee speaks with Frances Byrnes about…
This certainly hasn’t declined since the days when I read forbidden books under the bedclothes, but you could say I’ve…
Cherise Saywell’s writing talisman is a pen — but it’s one she never writes with. Cherise Saywell introduces her writer’s…
Jonny Wright explores how to be a rap poet To the uninitiated, there may not seem very much connection between…
I found it so much easier to pick up the next day where I left off, to finish what I…
Cliff Yates speaks with Geoff Hattersley about the journey from hating school to teaching it, and shares a little poetic…
As a housewife, I fail; as a writer, I need bad housekeeping.
How do poets cope with the blank page? Neil Rollinson offers some suggestions. All writers are familiar with the horrors…
Beginning writers should write about what they suspect, what they imagine, not what they know.
Five RLF writers share their all-time favourite books, and explain why they matter. Cliff Yates, Jeremy Seal, Debjani Chatterjee, Peter…
