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Susan Fletcher – Inspiration
I love maps for their own intrinsic beauty — their colours and outlines. I love them for helping me to…
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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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Judith Allnatt – The Festival Experience
A thoroughly enjoyable event for my World War One novel was based around a period afternoon tea, complete with posters,…
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Christopher Woodall – The Perfect Place To Write
Choosing precisely the right piece of text to submit to the cursor’s jaw or the pencil’s jab is never fortuitous.…
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Renga, Haibun And Nonets
Sarah Butler describes how she went from poetry sceptic to poetry enthusiast. Sarah Butler describes how she went from poetry…
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Sophie Duffy – The Writing Life
‘What are you up to?’ she asked. Her friend replied, ‘I’m bleaching the spoons.’ This friend was Val McDermid and…
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Ian Ayris
Ian Ayris speaks with Ann Morgan about storytelling as therapy, football as a form of expression and discovering Shakespeare. Ian…
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Cliff Forshaw – The Writer And Nature
To see the world afresh we ‘make it strange’. It is also a way of creeping close to realities and…
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Mark Morris – My Reading Habits
I think about books all the time. Books I’ve read and books I want to read. I compile lists in…
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Ros Barber – The Future Of Literature
Some young adults are turning away from apps that find ever more devious ways to devour their attention, and towards…
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Regi Claire – The Writer As Outsider
Being bullied taught me a valuable lesson: I became self-reliant, learned to look inside for sustenance. It made me, I…
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The Counterfeiters
Richard Lambert tells of his first encounter with two famous twentieth-century forgers. Richard Lambert tells of his first encounter with…
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Jonathan Edwards – Rejection
For the entirety of my twenties, I was rejected. I took it seriously. I treated rejection like a job. I…