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Why I Write
In ‘Why I Write’, RLF writers tell us about their reasons for writing. In ‘Why I Write’, we talk 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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Stephen Wyatt – Why I Write
I’m rediscovering the reasons why I wanted to write in the first place; for the pleasure of creating and living…
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Penny Black – In My Bottom Drawer
The English version is in the bottom drawer, but the German translated version had a wonderful life at a theatre…
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Mark McCrum – Rejection
There has to be rejection, otherwise the poor readers of the world would be even more submerged in badly written…
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Strange Inspiration
Karl Whitney describes how a mundane government document was the unlikely spark for his first book. Karl Whitney describes how…
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Chris Arthur – Letter To My Readers
Sometimes readers get in touch to tell me how they’ve been affected by things I’ve written. In the interchanges that…
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Emylia Hall – Writers Who Inspire Me
The wonder and generosity in her books make them irresistible. Simply put, Susan Fletcher creates worlds I want to live…
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Sarah LeFanu & Caroline Brothers
Sarah LeFanu explores the biographer’s dilemma when it comes to names, and Caroline Brothers considers the issue of cultural appropriation.…
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Hannah Vincent – My Reading Habits
I tend to read what I am trying to write. So, novels, when I am in the thick of a…
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Marcus Chown – Rejection
Rejection hurts because it is so personal. Your writing is you. You are naked and exposed. Rejection hurts because it…
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Tom Bullough – How I Write
I used to plan. I don’t plan now. Preconceptions are mostly impediments. The point of the process is to let…
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Wendy Wallace – Loneliness And The Writer
Meeting and working with hundreds of students was also new; an experience by turns humbling, saddening, stimulating. Meeting and working…