Doug Johnstone – Why I Write
I write because I’m angry. Okay that’s not the only reason, not by a long way, but it was a…
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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What Is Screenwriting?
Screenwriter Hugh Stoddart describes the ins and outs of producing original scripts and adaptations for the cinema. ‘A screenplay is…
Collected
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Nick Holdstock – Why I Write
Part of the reluctance to answer stems from the feeling that we are not only having to explain why we…
Collected
Podcast
Rahila Gupta
Rahila Gupta speaks with George Miller about the intersection between politics and writing. Rahila Gupta tells George Miller: ‘I have…
Collected
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Paid For Talking
SuAndi on her late start in writing, and being ‘paid for talking’. SuAndi describes her late start in writing, and…
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Sally Cline – Letter To My Younger Self
You couldn’t hang back any longer. You had to step in and say something. You already knew what you wanted…
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Digging
Susan Fletcher discovers how writing resembles archeology. The connections between writing and digging – as explored in Seamus Heaney’s eponymous…
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Donny O’Rourke – How I Write
I can write anywhere, and under most conditions, and yet, despite having motive, means and opportunity, I frequently lack the…
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Podcast
Roopa Farooki & Ray French
Roopa Farooki remembers being a brown child with white literary heroes, and Ray French considers literary identity and home vs.…
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Joan Lennon – Why I Write
I keep your books in a box under my bed, and when I can’t sleep in the night, I take…
Delight In The Dullest Of Places
Deborah Chancellor discovers that the most unprepossessing commission can have its pleasures, if approached in the right frame of mind.…
David Kennedy – Why I Write
Nowadays my poetry is much more serious in both intent and content, but I’m still fascinated by the intensities of…