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William Ryan
A photograph is often very revealing. I’ve written an entire novel based on a photograph album owned by the adjutant…
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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Martin Day – The Writing / Life Balance
Life is a constant rearrangement of priorities, and sometimes we need to remember that writing — though a compulsion we…
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Pen Or Keyboard — Which Is Mightier?
Nikki Sheehan recounts how she became a convert to writing by hand. Nikki Sheehan recounts how she became a convert…
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Rebecca Mascull – The Perfect Place To Write
There’s something wonderful about writing when there’s snow. It deadens sound and blankets everything with clean lines. There’s something wonderful…
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Alan Jenkins
Alan Jenkins speaks with John Greening about his career as an award-winning poet and critic. Alan Jenkins speaks with John…
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Katherine Stansfield – Publication Day
Writers must cast aside whichever exciting project they are now working on to go back in time, just as the…
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Lawrence Sail – How I Write
Knowing your own best work rhythms will save you both from making excuses, and from expecting too much of yourself…
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Alexandra Benedict – Being Genre Fluid
What genre would Shakespeare be? His works contain horror, history, myth, fantasy, ghosts, crime. Dickens, too. What genre would Shakespeare…
RLF News
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This year’s RLF Reading Round begins across the UK
As well as offering grants to professional writers, we also help our Royal Literary Fund writers by giving them the…
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No Matter How Dark The Tale
Anthony J. Quinn on the challenges he faced writing memoir about the Troubles. Anthony J. Quinn on writing memoir about…
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John Retallack – Inspiration
I stopped to smoke a cigarette, talking aloud to myself in a near-fury that I had a commission waiting for…
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Doug Johnstone – The Writing Life
I learned very early on as a self-employed freelancer that the answer to ‘Can you do this paid work?’ is…