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False Endings
Lois Pryce describes her year with Long Covid and the impact the illness had on her reading and writing. In…
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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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Sally Kindberg – The Writer And Nature
Eventually, creeping industrialisation and the seizure and loss of his beloved countryside caused John Clare such anguish it sent him…
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Andrew Cowan – The Best Advice I Ever Received
I returned to UEA to teach on the MA, and though I still valued Angela Carter’s advice to me, it…
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Maria McCann
It seems I share the writing fetishes of several people. I conclude, that I’m unusually neurotic and pervy. It seems…
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Bill Kirton, part 1
Bill Kirton speaks with Doug Johnstone about his love of teaching and becoming a writer accidentally. Bill Kirton speaks with…
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James Woodall – My Reading Habits
Lectio interruptus. Unfinished reading. That, regrettably, is what my reading habits today consist of; procrastination, and some disorganisation. Lectio interruptus.…
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Caroline Brothers – The Writer And The City
Knowledge of life in these cities — that I could never have acquired without inhabiting them — surfaced in my…
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Ann Morgan – The Festival Experience
On the hour-long car ride to the hotel, I kept seeing banners bearing my face. I wondered if lack of…
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The Migratory Swallow
Gerry Cambridge on returning to his childhood home and finding inspiration in the landscape where his writing career began. Gerry…
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John Greening – The Perfect Place To Write
Cambridgeshire, or what I still think of as ‘Huntingdonshire’, has become the perfect place for me to write in. We…
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Robert Hudson – In My Bottom Drawer
As far as I can tell, I’m the incredibly lucky kind of writer who has no trouble with ideas. That…
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My Hero, part 2
In ‘My Hero’, RLF writers tell us about personal heroes and the impact they’ve had. In the second instalment of…