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Rebecca Goss – My Reading Habits
Reading a novel for pleasure, in the daytime, has in the past felt as decadent as a solo trip to…
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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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Martyn Crucefix – How I Write
For any writer of poetry, prose, essays for your course, reading aloud highlights stumbling blocks of all kinds. For any…
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Me And My Audience, part 1
In ‘Me and my audience’, RLF writers look at the influence of audiences on the actual process of writing. RLF…
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Robin Etherington – In My Bottom Drawer
I’m a hoarder of ideas. I never throw anything out. No narrative rumination, no half-baked character detail or high-concept pitch.…
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Babs Horton – Letter To My Teachers
As well as learning about history it was good for our reflexes because we had to be on the ball…
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Julia Crouch – The Festival Experience
‘You’re on New Blood,’ Sam said. ‘Val McDermid chooses four debuts she really likes. It’s exciting.’ ‘Great!’ I said. I…
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One Hundred Years On
Miranda Miller explores three books published in 1922 that represent the birth of literary modernism. Miranda Miller explores three major…
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Alice Albinia – Dreams And The Writer
What I need is not a room, but a bed of my own, without husband, children, Beatrix Potter, Pingu; outwith…
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Tania Hershman – Inspiration
What I often do is I bombard myself. ‘Collision’ is a word that has always been important to my writing.…
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Julianne Pachico
Julianne Pachico speaks with Caroline Sanderson about childhood in Colombia, the influence of horror and suspense in her work, and…
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Stephen Mollett – Writers Who Inspire Me
In Tennessee Williams we meet contradictory, faulty, self-destructive, or self-deluding characters, full of dreams and yearning. What a great cocktail…
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Paul Dowswell – My Reading Habits
I avoid like the plague fiction on any current project. I think that would be fatal, in that I might…