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Paul Dodgson – How I Write
I needed to learn that so much happens in the prewriting stage when the mind is working in the background,…
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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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Caroline Smailes – Dreams And The Writer
I heard the words I’d typed – one day, years ago, not feeling like a ‘proper’ writer – brought to…
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How To Sum Up A Life
Sophie Duffy reflects on how finding the details that illuminate a life can help mourners navigate the grieving process. How…
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Suzannah Dunn – Why I Write
What am I thinking of when I write? Why do I think I am doing it? I am bringing my…
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Poetry Break with Rebecca Watts
Poetry Break: Rebecca Watts and Julia Copus discuss a romantic poem by Hart Crane. Rebecca Watts and our host Julia…
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Sarah Duncan – Letter To My Readers
I see writing for publication as a contract. I make up stuff that I hope will inform, entertain, scare, thrill…
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Carina Rodney – My Reading Habits
I joined the Barbara Pym Society and attended their conferences in Oxford, where I bought Pym swag and home-made quince…
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Doug Johnstone – Killing Your Darlings
When I’m in editing mode I almost can’t read other writers’ work, because everything feels overwritten. I can’t stop my…
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Christopher Woodall – The Writer As Outsider
My speech emerged so late, and so mangled, that it was experienced by others as either foreign or gibberish; in…
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Disturbing Authorship
Chris Arthur asks whether writers and readers should be concerned by the rapid development of AI-generated text. Chris Arthur considers…
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Helen Kelly – The Writing / Life Balance
Different spaces. Different states. They’ll jostle and shoulder each other. Important stuff will get pushed out on either side. Different…
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Gwyneth Lewis, part 2
Gwyneth Lewis speaks with John Greening about being a national poet, her global sailing adventures and the experience of severe…