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Trish Cooke – Rejection
I’m British West Indian, and so much of what I was writing about had rarely been published or produced at…
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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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Bernie McGill – Letter To My Younger Self
You’d be affronted if you knew that a fifty-two year old woman was reading what you’d written, and you’d be…
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My Genre’s Status, part 2
In ‘My Genre’s Status’, RLF writers speak about the challenges of working in a currently-popular genre. In the second installment…
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Alice Albinia – The Perfect Place To Write
I will live at your place in a vacuum of expectation. The one important thing your place should not contain,…
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Penny Black – The Writer As Outsider
I viewed myself as split in two, and yet this duality became my career, as I started translating German plays…
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Harry Ritchie – The Classic Book I’d Like To Re-write
One of the most startlingly inept sequences in thrillerdom’s history — Richard Hannay is on the run in Scotland and…
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He Do The Police In Different Voices
Ray French examines the concept of voice confrontation – the term for a dislike of one’s own speaking voice –…
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Tom Bullough – The Best Advice I Ever Received
Niall Griffiths’ advice was to turn it all around. He burst open the hole I’d dug for myself; suddenly, magically,…
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Lois Pryce & Rhiannon Tise
Lois Pryce steers around the perils of writing about real people, and Rhiannon Tise shares the joy of creative collaboration.…
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Zoë Marriott – How I Write
The first thirty percent of the story usually takes up about seventy percent of the time I will spend on…
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Kate Worsley
My growing collection of shanties became a sort of palimpsest, through which I discovered a world of courage and daring.…
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Leigh Russell – The Writing Life
A soundtrack switches on and off, relentlessly searching for words to describe my sensations, storing up ideas. A soundtrack switches…