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In ‘Me And My Audience’, RLF writers share their experiences of encounters with readers. RLF writers explore the effects that…
Sometimes writer’s block and unrealised projects amount to the same thing. Research takes over, the idea dwarfs the actuality. Sometimes…
Years passed and I did not write the novel. During this time my contact with the agent became more sporadic…
Writers discuss their favourite book in translation. Debjani Chatterjee MBE, Rahila Gupta, Kerry Young, Michael McMillan, Mimi Khalvati and Colin…
This re-sensitizing to nature has had a profound effect on me. On a recent trip to China I realized, something…
Adriana Hunter on the artistic rewards of literary translation. Adriana Hunter explores the art of literary translation and considers why…
I wouldn’t like to work in a coffee-shop, as many do, with the raucous spurting of the espresso machine, and…
Freya Stark travelled widely in Luristan, Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, Syria and Iraq, and was the first Western woman to journey…
Julia Copus speaks with Ann Morgan about her varied career, courage and poetic innovation. Julia Copus speaks with Ann Morgan…
These poems are never conventionally published: they skittle through the air into the hearts of whoever’s present, as gifts. These…
The new editor gave us a long list of do’s and don’ts… I still don’t know why semicolons offend the…
A friend gave me a very elegant ladies writing desk. But it was designed for a time when ladies sat…
