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Malachy Tallack
Malachy Tallack speaks with Caroline Sanderson about growing up in Shetland, and the role of place in his fiction and…
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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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Penny Boxall – Why I Write
Wipeout is a leap of faith, propelling you down a near-vertical drop until you’d spark if you weren’t drenched. Wipeout…
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Judith Allnatt – The Writer And Nature
It’s probably no coincidence that the passages picked out by readers, as scenes that ‘stayed with them’, seem to be…
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Stuart Walton – The Festival Experience
I was bundled into a double-act with the late Howard Marks, international drug trafficker turned memoirist. Our preparations were not…
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Martin Sketchley – The Writing / Life Balance
Over the past thirty years I’ve pretty much jumped from one project to the next. I even took a laptop…
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Dragons, Unicorns And Talking Lions
Jasbinder Bilan explores the enduring appeal of magic and fantasy in children’s fiction. Jasbinder Bilan explores the enduring appeal of…
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Clare Fisher – Letter To My Younger Self
You kiss boys. You stay up whispering to your girl friends about kissing boys. You do not think that you…
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Helen Kelly – Loneliness And The Writer
I choose to walk through Victorian parks with Edwardian characters, rather than real-life friends. Sometimes the characters hold my hand.…
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Adriana Hunter
Adriana Hunter speaks with Ann Morgan about writing the books of others, shape-shifting sex scenes and non-English novels. Adriana Hunter…
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Fiona Evans – Why I Write
I was brought up in a loving working-class family. This instilled a level of safety that allows me to investigate…
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Andrea Bennett – The Perfect Place To Write
Inspiration and good writing don’t just come from sitting at a desk, no matter how good the view. Ideas come…
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Maria McCann – Inspiration
My friend’s untimely death galvanised me: I went on an Arvon course, primed by the book she had told me…