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Alexandra Benedict speaks with Doug Johnstone about being a writer at three, the allure of dark and disturbing themes, and…
As lockdown hardened I discovered that my writing/life balance needed more balance. I missed the students and working through essays.…
Generous and complimentary reviews in the literary pages will pass unnoticed by your friends and relatives; one condescending remark will…
A Post-it note, a child’s drawing, even a prescription for folic acid never collected. I plot my life through the…
Garry MacKenzie considers how complexity and ambiguity in literature can offer rewards to the discerning reader. Garry MacKenzie considers his…
If I’d had to sum it up in a word – the motive force behind my writing – I might…
‘Welcome home Odysseus. I’m glad you finally made it back. I’m relieved that you had a bath and got yourself…
In ‘My Favourite Author’, RLF writers explore the influence that favourite authors have had on their own work. In this…
Thank you to Sister Marie Joseph, for reading us Bible stories every day, shining a light on a world of…
What she said helped, in part because of that careful use of tense: ‘When your first book is published, everything…
I’d rewrite Shakespeare’s Tempest. I hadn’t read it, but Caliban was all I needed to know. I re-formed the play…
Terms have been coined to describe novels that do not ignore climate catastrophe and ecological collapse: ‘cli-fi’, ‘eco-fiction,’ ‘speculative fiction’.…
