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Maggie Butt
Maggie Butt speaks with Ann Morgan about the transition from poetry to fiction, and the resilience needed to write. Maggie…
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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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Morgen Witzel – The Writer As Outsider
Journalist Ida Tarbell almost single-handedly took down the world’s most powerful and corrupt company, John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil. Journalist…
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Katherine Stansfield – Letter To My Readers
I suspect there are very few of you who’ve read everything I’ve written. Not least because I write across quite…
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Pippa Little – Rejection
Harper Lee warned that writers need a thick hide, but even elephants and rhinos feel pain. Harper Lee warned that…
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From Owl To Lark
Dilys Rose reflects on her writing routines and how, despite a demanding academic career and a busy family life, she…
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Cherise Saywell – Writers Who Inspire Me
Helen Dunmore was an established writer, but she revealed how she wasn’t happy about the stories she was writing. I…
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Alison Joseph – The Writer As Outsider
What Agatha Christie knew deep down, is that not only is the writer an outsider, but that the act of…
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Lydia Syson
Lydia Syson considers the kinds of truth embodied in fiction, and considers its place in historical research. Lydia Syson reflects…
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Shyama Perera – Marketing And Me
In modern times, completing your great work is merely the first stop on the journey. In modern times, completing your…
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What’s Your Desert Island Book?
Writers discuss their desert island book. Dipo Agboluaje, Shelley Silas, Jonny Wright, Gabriel Gbadamosi, Leila Rasheed, Penny Black and Sanjida…
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Dyan Sheldon – The Writer And The City
London is of course, a literary city, a city of writers… A few of those writers lived in my neighbourhood.…
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Ut Pictura Poesis
Cliff Forshaw, painter and poet, describes how honing his craft in one medium informs and influences the other. Cliff Forshaw,…