Bethan Roberts – Why I Write
If I could write books I could make up things like sex scenes which would be the most fun a…
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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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Podcast
Marcelle Bernstein, part 1
Marcelle Bernstein speaks with Carol Angier about interviewing’s golden age and the secret lives of nuns. Marcelle Bernstein speaks with…
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Sally Pomme Clayton – Life-changing Literature
She moves into a houseboat where she writes and writes until the boat rots. The diaries were a form of…
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Video
The Camera
Max Adams gives us a look at his writer’s talisman — and it looks back. Max Adams gives us a…
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Article
Tuned In, Torn Apart, Tub-thumped, Healed
Poetry not only changes the reader — it works on the writer too. John Greening asks how. Poets have always…
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Wendy Moore – Letter To My Younger Self
You form a band with other girls and write song lyrics instead. You walk this flimsy tightrope; eager to do…
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Podcast
Nicholas Murray, part 1
Nicholas Murray speaks with George Miller about literary biography, including his acclaimed life of Huxley. Nicholas Murray is the author…
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Brian McAvera – Why I Write
I lived in Andersonstown, Belfast, I was teaching there. And what I saw incensed me, so I wrote about that.
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Article
Whalesong
Lucinda Hawksley’s quest to see every species of whale has an unexpected conclusion. Lucinda Hawksley is not the first writer…
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Susan Barker – Why I Write
I wrote more to occupy my time and because writing was an activity suited to my hyperactive imagination and love…
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Podcast
Poets Of The Ghazal
Mimi Khalvati, Debjani Chatterjee and Basir Sultan Kazmi explore the ghazal. Julia Copus is joined by poets Debjani Chatterjee, Basir…
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Miranda Miller – How I Write
Writing fiction belongs more to the sleeping, than the waking world, so I try not to surrender myself to the…