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Royal Literary Fund writers explore the link between creativity and the world beyond the desk, touching on the role of…
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…
John Greening speaks with Caroline Sanderson about discovering that poetry was his calling, and discusses his wide-ranging career in verse,…
“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.
Royal Literary Fund writers explore how their writing relates to the people around them, taking in everything from working with…
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…
In the first of a two-part exploration of the knotty problem of ‘Writing versus life’, Royal Literary Fund fellows discuss…
The year is 1978. I’m sixteen years old. I’ve just begun in the sixth form of Boston Spa Comprehensive West…
