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Amanda Dalton – In My Bottom Drawer
One of my literal bottom drawers has jumpers in it and sometimes, if I don’t shut it fast enough, 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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Aisha Zia – The Writer As Outsider
I’m a very active and social person so I find it especially hard to lock myself away. It makes me…
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Penny Boxall – The Best Advice I Ever Received
“So?” raised uncomfortable questions. Aren’t we always battling against that nasty little question? On bad days it undermines, on good…
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Karl Whitney – Rejection
Rejection is familiar to every writer. It was already familiar to me when I first sent out my book proposal,…
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Sara Wheeler – Being Genre Fluid
Bruce Chatwin turned down the Thomas Cook Travel Book of the Year award, and its cheque, because, he averred, ‘I’m…
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Rhiannon Tise – The Writer And The City
My early plays were all set in London. It was what I knew. London fascinated me. Who were these city…
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Clare Chambers – My Reading Habits
In my twenties I would never abandon a book I had started, from a mixture of stubbornness and courtesy to…
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Katherine Clements – Inspiration
Once or twice in my writing life a piece of writing has come to me fully formed, spilling onto the…
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Brian Keaney – The Writer And Technology
‘What is it?’ asked Ron, my editor. ‘It’s a manuscript written on a computer,’ his colleague told him. ‘I’ve just…
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Emylia Hall – How Writing Changes The Writer
I felt like I was taking charge of my destiny. Several novels down the line, the idea of autonomy feels…
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Lydia Syson – The Perfect Place To Write
Mrs Drue Heinz, the benefactor who bought Hawthornden Castle, thought of everything when she designed their residential fellowships. This is…
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Sara Wheeler – The Writing Life
Writing is a search to find a pattern in the messy, contradictory details of the non-writing life — yours, mine,…