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Ron Butlin
Ron Butlin speaks with Kona Macphee about writing in Scots and English, his various careers, and the importance of music.…
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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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Gavin Weightman – How I Write
The time comes when there’s an overwhelming need to set something down. to begin. I bring up the blank Word…
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Sudanese Soap
Annie Caulfield ventures to South Sudan to work on a radio soap. Tribal hostilities, polygamous jealousies and farming disasters are…
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Hilary Davies
Hilary Davies speaks with Julia Copus about the long poem, including her own ‘Imperium’. Hilary Davies speaks with Julia Copus…
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Stephen Wakelam – How I Write
A biographer connects up the dots in the picture having found the dots of data. The only fiction is in…
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The Dead House
An ambulant audio story by Peter Guttridge doesn’t so much respond to the spirit of a Scarborough cemetery as actually…
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Kate Colquhoun, part 2
Kate Colquhoun speaks with Carole Angier about Joseph Paxton’s regrets, British cooking and the ideas that get away. Kate Colquhoun…
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Alice, Baz And Bears
Kevin Cadwallender describes mortifying poetic beginnings and how he wrote a pamphlet in a weekend, and shares a bear. Kevin…
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Gabriel Gbadamosi – Life-changing Literature
On the opening night we had an audience of a thousand teenage girls screaming their heads off in derision at…
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Writers Writing About Writers Writing
Charles Jennings descends into his own, private hell of self-reflexive novelising. Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Doris Lessing, John Fowles, A.S.…
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John Keay
John Keay shares his diary as he lets go of a completed book and considers the next one. John Keay…
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Katie Grant – How I Write
It turns out that the quick answer to How I Write, is, in chaos. For a control freak like me…