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Podcast
What Motivates Us?
Nikki Sheehan, Sheena Wilkinson, Phoebe Power, Sarah Butler and Alex Nye consider what prompts them to write.
News & Features
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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New term, new tips – five ways to access our RLF student resources
As universities and colleges across the UK prepare for a new academic year, our selection of RLF resources helps students…
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Article
The Invisibility of the Ghostwriter
RLF Fellow Mark McCrum on how a detour from writing travel books led to a double life as a ghostwriter.
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Podcast
Doug Johnstone interviews William Ryan
William Ryan speaks with Doug Johnstone about crime writing, digging into history and the key to making the middle of…
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How to cultivate resilience: a toolkit for writers
Writer, coach and RLF Fellow Katherine Clements on how to navigate a creative life
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Mama Says
The repudiation of shame in the fiction of Edna O’Brien, by RLF Fellow and Irish Times contributor Martina Evans
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Choosing a name: partiality and biographical writing
RLF Fellow Sarah LeFanu on how biographers choose what names to call the subjects of their books.
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Seven tips to help you improve your academic writing
Tips from our RLF Fellows for students and those interested in academic writing.
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Podcast
The Writing Environment
Sarah Hilary, Jini Reddy, Marnie Riches and Peter Oswald reflect on how their relationship to their surroundings affects their writing.
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History is other people
RLF Fellow John Keay on Ghandi, China, and writing other peoples’ history.
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Podcast
My True Genre, part 2
In the second installment of our ‘My True Genre’ series, we talk to RLF Fellows who work mostly in different…
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Article
Writers’ Writing Routines
“Writing a long novel is like survival training” Haruki Murakami. How our RLF Fellows make writing work, when life gets…