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Stuart Walton – Rejection
A machine assessed my three chapters in two and a half hours, and sent best wishes for placing my work…
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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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Lydia Syson, part 1
Lydia Syson speaks with Catherine O’Flynn about childhood in Botswana, the perils of Critical Theory and obsessive accuracy. Lydia Syson…
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Julia Crouch – The Writer And The City
The city has become a very different place. There’s no hanging about with a coffee and earwigging. Now we are…
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Sara Taylor – Writer’s Block
Overwhelmed by the pressure to write, I had ceased to do many of the things that I enjoyed. With hindsight,…
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Martyn Crucefix – The Writer And Technology
Her multitudinousness spawns my passive respect for numbers, speed, spectacle, calculation; all of which barely disguises the non-event. Her multitudinousness…
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What Book Are You Reading At The Moment?
Writers discuss the book they are currently reading. Penny Black, Jonny Wright, Gabriel Gbadamosi, Sanjida O’Connell, Dipo Agboluaje, Shelley Silas…
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Dyan Sheldon – Killing Your Darlings
Publishers call it editing. Writers call it killing your darlings. As if you’re drowning kittens, or choosing which of your…
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Digging For Gold
Rebecca Mascull on the value of finding the social and human elements in historical research. Rebecca Mascull on the value…
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Jonathan Edwards – Writers Who Inspire Me
All of my favourite writers are Dylan Thomas. I say this because his writing is so varied. There are so…
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Location And The Writer, part 26
In ‘Location and the Writer’, Mary Colson defends Milton Keynes, Martin Day explores Yeovil and Penny Boxall introduces Shandy Hall.…
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Linda Hoy – Loneliness And The Writer
Writing, and especially fiction, can become obsessive. A dimension no one else can reach. It can become antisocial and addictive.…
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Clare Pollard – The Writing / Life Balance
The freelance life is, in many ways, compatible with motherhood. I dropped bits of teaching, but mainly just said ‘no’…