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Tom Bullough – Why I Write
I think of writing now, not in terms of addiction — although this can be tempting sometimes — but rather…
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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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Clare Pollard – The Festival Experience
My first year at Latitude it was baking with sunshine and I ended up having a drink under a tree…
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Robert Hudson – My Reading Habits
I do think critics are absurd about crime and sci-fi. They tend to get discombobulated by it, and over-praise genre…
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James Woodall – The Future Of Literature
It could be argued that this human drive for narrative has constituents similar to appetite and, say, sleep. It could…
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Harry Ritchie – A Day In The Life
I like to keep a meticulous, joylessly Presbyterian record of my daily toil, and I’ve had to accept that, for…
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Brian Clegg – The Writer As Outsider
I may have a science degree but I’m not a scientist. Equally, I know far too much science to be…
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Caroline Brothers – The Biggest Surprise Of My Writing Life
I had to pinch myself to believe I was really speaking to audiences in the Emirates, where the new Vice…
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Charles Jennings – Rejection
Quite often I’ve dropped the project altogether and gone onto something else, in a different medium. Turning my back on…
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Stephen Wyatt – The Classic Book I’d Like To Re-write
I’d love to rewrite Barnaby Rudge. Principally, to do justice to the most interesting and unusual character in the book…
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Lynn Knight
My father was a mining engineer, and although our house looked out onto fields, not colliery wheels, I’ve enjoyed writing…
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Alicia Foster – The Writer And The City
Although you can imagine the Saffron Hill rookery that Oliver Twist was spirited away to by the Artful Dodger, the…
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Martyn Bedford – Letter To My Readers
When I switched from adult fiction to YA, I was suddenly and acutely more aware of my readers than I…