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Mark Illis – Being Genre Fluid
Now I write books and TV for teenagers, and for adults. Some days I’ll work on the new novel in…
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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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Dyan Sheldon – Life-changing Literature
Men wrote the books that mattered. Women wrote stories in magazines. But as a child, the books I read were…
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Lucy Flannery – The Classic Book I’d Like To Re-write
Those girls took their lives in their hands every time they set foot outside the front door. But Chalet Girls…
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Rhiannon Tise – Rejection
We learn from the process of creating, but rejection can limit our development if nothing gets made. We might start…
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Paul Dowswell – My Reading Habits
These chaps who are being murdered as prisoners of war, or burned to death in their tanks, or shot as…
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Chris Westwood – Letter To My Readers
Where do the ideas come from? It seems you haven’t noticed. I only ever had one good idea, and I…
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Lucy Moore – Why I Write
They lived in the present tense, without any sense of their future fates, just as we do. Sunlight shone on…
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Kathleen Jones – Being Genre Fluid
Whoever defined genres, it can’t have been a writer. You can’t fit creativity into a straightjacket and tell your imagination…
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Ann Morgan – Letter To My Younger Self
That novel you spend eighteen months redrafting in your mid-twenties? You can’t even remember what you did with the manuscript.…
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Caroline Brothers – The Writer As Outsider
Writers don’t need to be prisoners, or exiles, or even cursed by elements of their own society to feel an…
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Leigh Russell – My Reading Habits
Shy as a child, books became my shield from life, as well as an escape, and I read my way…
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Robert Hudson – How I Write
I try to say what needs saying, today, as well as I possibly can say it — however bad it…