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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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Neil Hanson – Why I Write

I write because everyone’s got a book in them, and I want to get all mine published before the rush…

Illustration by Fran Pulido of two books that look like open books next to a microphone.
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Esther Selsdon – Why I Write

The difference between me and my neighbour’s friend, I guess, was that, later that evening when I went home, I…

Illustration by Fran Pulido of woman by window thinking what to write with book birds flying past window.
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Philip Caveney – Why I Write

My version culminated in Attila and the Pope having a duel to the death outside the gates of Rome; as…

Illustration by Fran Pulido of two books that look like open books next to a microphone.
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David Spencer – Why I Write

You’re a man now lad, you’ve got to be strong for your mother. So that’s what I did. I stood…

Illustration by Fran Pulido of two books that look like open books next to a microphone.
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Katie Grant – Why I Write

Except for the supremely confident, the arrogant and the self-deluded, writing is an unsatisfactory occupation of wickedly high highs and…

Illustration by Fran Pulido of woman by window thinking what to write with book birds flying past window.
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Annie Caulfield – Why I Write

As I sulked around chilly convent corridors, I imagined that a writing life would be all late rising and escaping…

Illustration by Fran Pulido of two books that look like open books next to a microphone.
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Alyson Hallett – Why I Write

It’s a messy process too. Full of delight and verve and sparkle, as well as failure, submission, defeat.

Illustration by Fran Pulido of two books that look like open books next to a microphone.
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Gavin Weightman – Why I Write

Sometimes it’s exciting, and I wish the British Library had a room where you could roar with delight when an…

Illustration by Fran Pulido of two books that look like open books next to a microphone.
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Jim Kelly – Why I Write

A shy child, I particularly liked the idea that your fame was concentrated in those letters on the cover. You…