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Shyama Perera – How Writing Changes The Writer
Nina was not me. She just had my story. She was her own woman and she changed me, at the…
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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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Wendy Wallace – Letter To My Younger Self
Thankyou for packing the case for our long journey with language, story, curiosity. Thanks for being solitary and bad at…
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Caitlin Davies – The Best Advice I Ever Received
Think of the reader, whatever you’re writing, and make it easy for them. It doesn’t matter if there is only…
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Doug Johnstone – My Reading Habits
I have a PhD in nuclear physics, so anything to do with the big ideas of modern physics appeals… I…
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Chris Westwood – In My Bottom Drawer
The coalmine makes me think of Dad, who worked down there in the dark and damp from the age of…
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Karin Altenberg – The Writer And The City
We can all be writers of the city. We move through them like a pen scribbles across a paper, adding…
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Julian Sayarer – Why I Write
Writing is my exteriority. I am safer, comforted, when my mind is clear before me on a page to see.…
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Sue Roe – The Biggest Surprise Of My Writing Life
I think the biggest surprise of my writing life is that no-one — but no-one — who isn’t a writer…
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Paul Dowswell – The Writing Life
The idea that writers are wealthy people is endemic. Children’s and Young Adult writers are often asked to appear in…
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Stephen Mollett – Writer’s Block
The advice I often give myself when feeling blocked, is just to carry on writing. Squeeze it out. Even if…
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Bill Kirton – Marketing And Me
The real revelation for me was that the genius Beethoven came across as a very normal artist; one of us,…
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Lydia Syson – Rejection
Thinking of Shaw, newly arrived in London from Dublin to find everyone writing novels, I remember my own version of…