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Paul Mason
Does any writer, in fact, work well to a background of distraction? His son’s violin practice drove Philip Pullman to…
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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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Never Mind The Pigeonholes
Zoë Howe on the challenges of stepping outside your creative comfort zone. Zoë Howe explores the challenges of stepping outside…
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Diana Hendry – Being Genre Fluid
I frequently think that if I’d had any sense I’d have given up all other forms of writing and concentrated…
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Emylia Hall – A Day In The Life
By the time I was working on my fourth novel, The Thousand Lights Hotel, I was thirty-six and my son…
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John Greening – Rejection
What should a writer do when someone says no? With poems sent to magazines, that’s life. It’s unlikely to have…
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Caroline Brothers
Caroline Brothers speaks with Ann Morgan about writing international stories, being a foreign correspondent and kinds of bravery. Caroline Brothers…
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Clare Bayley – The Classic Book I’d Like To Re-write
Ophelia’s story is so unjust and so slight, that I would give her more of a backbone and her story…
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Sanjida O’Connell – Getting Published: What No One Tells You
One reader will give your book a one-star rating because Amazon didn’t deliver it on time. There will be reviews.…
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The Photograph
Marcus Chown explores the connections between a rediscovered family photograph and his career as a science writer. Marcus Chown discovers…
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Elanor Dymott – Writers And Deadlines
Most of the students I worked with as a RLF Writing Fellow were struggling with too many assignments. We spent…
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Helen Grant – Marketing And Me
I’m a gothic writer, so I regularly post photographs of ruined churches and ancient castles, or bizarre and macabre news…
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Ann Morgan – The Perfect Place To Write
That’s the thing about stories; they tend to work to their own schedules. That’s the thing about stories; they tend…