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Cynan Jones – Killing Your Darlings
I sent in a physical copy of the novel rather than a Word doc., banking on the fact no-one would…
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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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Stephen Mollett – Letter To My Younger Self
You baulk at the term ‘networking’ and think it’s somehow shabby. It’s about getting to know people. Collaboration and trust…
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Anna Wilson
Anna Wilson speaks with Caroline Sanderson about wild swimming, the benefits of a child’s-eye view and her recent memoir. Anna…
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Marcy Kahan – The Writer And The City
Seventy-four years after Dickens’ night-walk, in the year 1930, Virginia Woolf sets out from Bloomsbury to the Strand, to purchase…
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Andrew Martin – The Perfect Place To Write
If I kept the window open, my room was filled with the white noise of the sea, which could block…
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There’s An Art To It
Mark Blayney explores the practice of ekphrastic writing. Mark Blayney on the practice of ekphrastic writing – writing that responds…
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Robin Etherington – The Festival Experience
I quickly found that playing to halls full of excitable children, and getting a laugh from them, was unimaginably rewarding.…
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Martin Day – The Best Advice I Ever Received
Agents and editors, producers and commissioners, say they are looking for the original writing voice. Surely the process behind it…
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Dyan Sheldon – The Classic Book I’d Like To Re-write
In my rewrite of It’s a Wonderful Life, George would be Georgia. On a cold Christmas Eve, she sits alone.…
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Three Little Things with Michael Bond
Michael Bond speaks with Julia Copus about his significant ‘Three Little Things’. Michael Bond and our host Julia Copus speak…
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Alice Albinia – Inspiration
Orkney is experiencing a cultural renaissance fuelled to a large degree by British people’s fascination with their preliterate past. I…
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Simon Booker – How I Write
Surely this has been done before? The answer, invariably, is: ‘Well, yes, it has been done,’ (after all, what hasn’t?)…