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Pippa Little – Why I Write
Though I never told him so, I write because of my father; unusually for that time he was the parent…
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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.
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James McConnachie & Sanjida O’Connell
James McConnachie just dares us to snigger, and Sanjida O’Connell explains that writers can’t help it. James McConnachie just dares…
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Caitlin Davies – Letter To My Younger Self
Typing away with two fingers late at night with no idea of plan or structure, not noticing as characters came…
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Going Under
Wendy Moore subjects herself to hypnosis — all for the sake of research. Her fear of hypnosis did not stop…
Fiona Shaw – How I Write
Perhaps the slowness and painfulness of my writing process is also part and parcel of what I do best when…
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Katharine McMahon
Katharine McMahon speaks with Julia Copus about early women lawyers and her novel The Crimson Rooms. Katharine McMahon speaks with…
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Tobias Jones – Why I Write
In a strange way writing is a communal activity, getting you out into the world to see it anew, to…
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Why Bother With Ayn Rand?
Anita Mason traces the present-day political influence of the postwar novelist Ayn Rand. Few people in Europe even know how…
Julian Turner – Letter To My Younger Self
When you take that rag-bag bunch of lost children to the farm they wrecked, remember that you can see a…
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Diane Samuels
Diane Samuels shares an audio diary with an emphasis on the theatrical. Diane Samuels shares her writing week with us,…
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Roopa Farooki – Life-changing Literature
When I resurfaced into the real world I realised with absolute certainty that what Tolkien had done for me, was…
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Taking Orders From Monica
Bethan Roberts had to dramatise the life of a Welsh goose-breeding artist from glimpses captured in her journals. The artist…