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Paul Dowswell
I’ve written two novels about the Great War and both of them were inspired by one of the most haunting…
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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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Kerry Young – Why I Write
The written word is not like a conversation. There is a time gap between the stimulus and the response. The…
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Mary Colson – Being Genre Fluid
The days of the monocultured genre writer is long gone. Writers carry a choir of voices in their heads. The…
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Bethan Roberts – Rejection
The worst thing about that first rejection wasn’t that I’d been turned down by Oxford, it was that it made…
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Elanor Dymott – Letter To My Younger Self
Don’t, on replacing the recycling bin, notice the complete stories of Flannery O’Connor resting on the kitchen table, and think…
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Catherine O’Flynn – How I Write
I decided enough was enough. I was going to write this novel in the right order, starting at the beginning.…
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Andrew Martin – Marketing And Me
I don’t know what the marketing departments of publishers expect when they send out the press release for a new…
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Tania Hershman – Being Genre Fluid
I was playing. I take play very seriously. I was wrapping prose around poems, then freeing the poems. I was…
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Robert Hudson
Different stories feel like they require different storytelling registers and so when I am working out whatever story I want…
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Courttia Newland – The Writing Life
It’s quite normal for me to be having a conversation, or bathing my three year old daughter, only to be…
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Lucy Lethbridge – The Best Advice I Ever Received
However tempting the urge to retrace and re-examine, suppress that urge and track onward to the end. You need the…
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Linda Hoy – Marketing And Me
I’ve been taught from childhood that integrity is everything, and paying somebody to write a review would be a mortal…