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Alice Albinia – How I Write
I am typing with two thumbs in the early morning; still in bed, half immersed in a hypnagogic state. As…
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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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Marcus Chown – Letter To My Younger Self
A friend at Caltech asks, are you a dilettante? You are not. You are very focussed, just not on PhD…
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Wendy Wallace – The Writer And The City
A writer in London has the ever-present possibility of going out of the door and into a space shared with…
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Harry Ritchie – The Best Advice I Ever Received
He was a publisher of the old school. Full of himself, and expense account beanos. He was dressed for his…
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John Greening – Dreams And The Writer
My dreams are often literary, occasionally disturbingly so, like that vivid encounter I had with R. S. Thomas before I…
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Chris Westwood – Letter To My Teachers
What if Sir hates it? What if he’s disgusted by the bloodletting, the stakings and beheadings? Not only did you…
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Martyn Bedford – Letter To My Younger Self
As you sit at your desk in Bristol Poly tapping away at that Amstrad, break off for a moment to…
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Sanjida O’Connell – Rejection
Being an author is a little like stepping into a boxing ring; a few brief moments of adoration before the…
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Elanor Dymott – In My Bottom Drawer
All of these embryonic works have titles and plots, and characters; some of them openings, and some of them, endings.…
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Stephanie Norgate – Loneliness And The Writer
Loneliness is the follower of bereavement and isolation; the sequel to so many sad life events. But solitude is a…
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Andrew Martin – Dreams And The Writer
In Nabokov, events melt into one another in a way I find dreamlike, and Nabokov, like Graham Greene, did record…
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Stephen Mollett – The Writer As Outsider
We need to imagine intensely, to identify strongly with the people whom we’re writing about, however uncomfortable or difficult that…