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Karin Altenberg – The Writer And Nature
We make a fire at dusk and dance around it in wild leaps to stave off the sharp chill of…
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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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D Is For Death
Sophie Duffy shares how facing her own mortality revolutionised her writing. Sophie Duffy tackles the taboo subject of death and…
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Rebecca Goss – The Writing Life
The thing I recall about the Mark Billingham and Val McDermid event is the sheer pleasure experienced by the audience.…
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Ros Schwartz – A Day In The Life
My thoughts associate freely as I swim among the ducks, coots and moorhens with their chicks. The solution inevitably bubbles…
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Poetry Break with John Greening
Poetry Break: John Greening and Julia Copus discuss classic poems by Edward Thomas. John Greening and our host Julia Copus…
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Brian Keaney – Getting Published: What No One Tells You
The idea of being a writer is essentially a fabrication, and never is that more obvious than just after publication…
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Paul Mason – Letter To My Teachers
I travelled the county, then the country, then the world. Swimming got me into writing; an anonymous report on the…
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Simon Booker – Writer’s Block
The creative part of my brain, that had written countless scripts, configured myriad plots, conjured hundreds of characters, had simply…
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Forging Stories
Penny Boxall considers literary forgeries and explores some famous counterfeits. Penny Boxall considers literary forgeries and the nature of copying…
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Cynan Jones
Regardless of when I went to bed, I was awake by five a.m., exhausted, and with the feeling I’d lost…
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Sara Wheeler – The Festival Experience
In the Hay green room, I once met Carlos Fuentes. I admired him so much that I took a selfie…
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Lydia Syson, part 2
Lydia Syson speaks with Catherine O’Flynn about fiction and ghostwriting, ethical motivations and the importance of luck. Lydia Syson speaks…