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RLF Fellow Dr Kerry Young has spent seven years running Writing for Life workshops. But what exactly is writing for…
Adam Gopnik says there are three types of essay: review essays, memoir essays, and what he calls ‘odd-object’ essays. I’m…
“It’s all about people expressing or discovering what kind of stuff they’ve got in the back catalogue of themselves, the…
“The simplicity of it is key,” says Dr Edson Burton, writer, historian, playwright and tutor, who is running a RLF Reading Round group…
RLF Fellow and playwright Marcy Kahan examines seven aspects of W. Somerset Maugham’s remarkable life and career. Cosmopolitanism The first…
1. My first novel, In the Place of Fallen leaves, was published in 1993. I gave a nerve-wracking public reading…
Bidisha Mamata is a writer, broadcaster and an artist who makes films and stills. She is the author of the…
The year is 1978. I’m sixteen years old. I’ve just begun in the sixth form of Boston Spa Comprehensive West…
I can’t really say I liked my mother. The admission is painful, or maybe shameful would be a better word.…
A few years ago, I translated a novel by the Cuban American writer Armando Lucas Correa, entitled The German Girl.…
Applications are now open for a new grant to support professional playwrights who come from or are based in the…
Paul Munden describes the challenging process of writing about the musical genius of Nigel Kennedy Paul Munden describes the challenging…
