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Cherise Saywell – My Reading Habits
If something really gets to me, I want to figure out how and why. What is it the writer does…
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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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John Greening – The Writer And Nature
Good nature poetry is about looking, but it’s also about having the right vocabulary, which most of us townies are…
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Discovering Dylan
Jonathan Edwards recalls his time as writer in residence at Dylan Thomas’s boathouse and explains why the poet’s work remains…
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Amanda Dalton – The Writer As Outsider
But what about the writer as insider? For every prophet in the wilderness, isn’t there someone firmly embedded in the…
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Caroline Sanderson – Writers Who Inspire Me
The writers who inspire me are those for whom writing is routine. The ones who, while fond of singing and…
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Bill Kirton, part 2
Bill Kirton speaks with Doug Johnstone about following his curiosity, enjoying variety and collaborating with somebody he’s never met. Bill…
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Caitlin Davies – Rejection
Why do I go through this? I’m fifty-five years old. I’ve had twelve books published, and I’ve had thirty-six years…
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Lucy Moore – Being Genre Fluid
The main reason I struggle to be genre fluid is that to write good historical novels you need two sets…
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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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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…