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Alison Joseph – Letter To My Readers
If you are now reading my words, and if we accept that words are only as valid as the mind…
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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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Alyson Hallett – Rejection
Etymology of rejection is important here: rejection means thrown back. You send something out and it’s thrown back. Etymology is…
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Death, Zest And Gusto
Roy Bainton explores the long career of personal literary icon, Ray Bradbury. Roy Bainton asks whether writers improve as they…
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Zoe Howe – My Most Treasured Moments As A Writer
My nearest bookshop was essentially a sex shop but stocked some excellent pop culture books. To see my book in…
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Clare Chambers
Clare Chambers speaks with Ann Morgan about breakout successes, writing history convincingly and retaining a balance between pessimism and optimism.…
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Rebecca Goss – Loneliness And The Writer
My husband, a furniture maker, helpfully offered to build me a shed at the end of the garden. I declined.…
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Brian Clegg – The Perfect Place To Write
Some of my fellow coffee shop typists seem quite happy to join the queue for a refill, leaving their precious…
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Sara Wheeler – My Reading Habits
I spend a lot of time in extreme environments where books of length are essential. Tolstoy’s doorstops were made for…
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A Baby In A Glass Jar
Alex Nye reflects on a biology lesson at school in the 1970s, and how it led to an early writing…
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Dyan Sheldon – In My Bottom Drawer
It’s never been clear to me what’s meant to happen in that bottom drawer. Will your manuscript magically rewrite itself?…
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Lydia Syson – Writer’s Block
Like insomnia, or memory loss, or madness, writer’s block is something I prefer to keep in my peripheral vision. Like…
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Dilys Rose
Dilys Rose speaks with Doug Johnstone about the challenges of multiple literary genres, collaborating with artists in other fields and…