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Donny O’Rourke explores how his Catholic upbringing inspired and shaped his writing career. Donny O’Rourke explores how his Catholic upbringing…
If you don’t care about what you write passionately, how will you endure it, and why on earth should your…
The deadline for this piece was Christmas Eve, but that was also the deadline for buying presents for the family.…
In ‘My Genre’s Status’, RLF writers speak about working in genres that are under-valued or looked down on. In the…
I am typing with two thumbs in the early morning; still in bed, half immersed in a hypnagogic state. As…
A friend at Caltech asks, are you a dilettante? You are not. You are very focussed, just not on PhD…
Brian McCabe recalls the unconventional teacher who encouraged his first outing as a poet. Brian McCabe recalls the early influences…
A writer in London has the ever-present possibility of going out of the door and into a space shared with…
He was a publisher of the old school. Full of himself, and expense account beanos. He was dressed for his…
Alice Albinia speaks with Ann Morgan about solo travel, prophetesses and female solidarity. Alice Albinia speaks with Ann Morgan about…
My dreams are often literary, occasionally disturbingly so, like that vivid encounter I had with R. S. Thomas before I…
What if Sir hates it? What if he’s disgusted by the bloodletting, the stakings and beheadings? Not only did you…
