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Royal Literary Fund Fellows Sarah Hilary, Peter Fiennes and Claire Williamson explore the influence of past experiences on their work,…
Paula Hawkins worked as a journalist for fifteen years before turning to fiction. She is the author of two #1 New York…
This is what I’ve come to believe. No matter how long I live in a country I wasn’t born in,…
In the second part of our investigation into ‘Writing versus life’, RLF writers examine the pitfalls that face writers who…
Is it possible to depict dramatically The Holocaust without descending into morbid fascination?
There is a myth about the business of being an author. It goes something like this: “Once upon a time…
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…
