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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.
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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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,…
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Jackie Wills
Jackie Wills speaks with Geoff Hattersley about artistic collaboration, self-taught poetry skills and freelance survival. Jackie Wills speaks with Geoff…
Miranda Miller – How Writing Changes The Writer
I don’t talk about a novel until I’m well into the first draft, and in fact have a private superstition…
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Shelley Weiner – Why I Write
Bring me your newborn idea and your raw curiosity, and I’ll give you the tools to transform it into fiction.
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On Writing
Road-menders, ice-cream vans, the pram in the hall… Andrew Sant considers familiar bugbears of the writing life, and how to…
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Jonathan Tulloch & Vox
Jonathan Tulloch’s gustatory reflection for summer takes in a panoply of cake, plus three RLF writers on why they write.…
Lydia Syson – Letter To My Younger Self
Death, money, cooking, school assemblies, blog posts, twitter; I’d rather you went on enjoying the benign neglect which lets you…