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Sanjida O’Connell – Inspiration
In many ways, the ‘pram in the hallway’ has not been, for me, ‘a sombre enemy of good art’. Having…
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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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Philip Womack – My Reading Habits
Books written by friends have a special, honoured shelf to themselves. Histories, biographies, novels, memoirs. Some of them write quite…
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Ros Schwartz
The stylists, all from northern Italy, would complain about their husbands in their dialect. I spent my early years eavesdropping.…
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Lucasta Miller – Loneliness And The Writer
Working on a book can be gruelling. The feeling that you’re writing into a void can spawn an imagined readership…
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Martin MacInnes – The Biggest Surprise Of My Writing Life
I found a single email, sent by the organisers of a writing competition, inviting me to a reading and presentation,…
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Syd Moore – Why I Write
When I learnt about the witch trials that had taken place in my home county of Essex, fiction finally called…
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Zoë Howe – Inspiration
I want to write about people who are creative, courageous, eccentric, mystical. They have a less appreciated side that deserves…
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Marina Benjamin – My Most Treasured Moments As A Writer
‘Flow’, named in the mid-twentieth century, describes a mental state characterised by an intense absorption ‘Flow’, named in the mid-twentieth…
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Simon Booker – The Best Advice I Ever Received
E. L. Doctorow’s liberating idea that ‘writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as…
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Robin Etherington – Marketing And Me
We decided to release new titles at specific shows. This was our first brush with the idea of event publishing…
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Kate Worsley – The Best Advice I Ever Received
He explained that everything else from now on — the agent, the publisher, the deal, the reviews, the readers, the…
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Rebecca Goss – Writers Who Inspire Me
Jayne Anne Phillips’ slim collection Sweethearts was published when she was in her early twenties. She calls the writing ‘pieces’.…