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Where To Begin?
Paul Dodgson considers how the ordinary moments in our lives can be the perfect entry point to a life story.…
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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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Lydia Syson – Rejection
Thinking of Shaw, newly arrived in London from Dublin to find everyone writing novels, I remember my own version of…
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Sarah Ardizzone, part 1
Sarah Ardizzone speaks with Ann Morgan about her career in translation, working with writers outside the mainstream, and how she…
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Wendy Wallace – The Writer And Nature
Cliffs populated with soldier orchids, and purple thrifts, and sea hollies. Cliffs high enough to jump from, as the withered…
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What’s Your Favourite Children’s Book?
Writers discuss their favourite children’s book. Jon Mayhew, Caroline Brothers, Fraser Grace, Emma Darwin, Helen Grant and Robbie Hudson discuss…
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Sarah Williams – Why I Write
I am, if not addicted to words, at the very least word-dependent. One contributory factor to this word-dependence is the…
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Donny O’Rourke – Letter To My Readers
Since earliest childhood, when words first began to form riotous assemblies in my prissy and precocious little bonce, I have…
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Andrew Martin – The Writer And Nature
As a novelist, those stories I’ve set largely in the countryside have proceeded faster than those set in towns. As…
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Truly Scrumptious?
Andrea Bennett looks at the role of food in shaping fictional characters, and whether the culinary choices we make in…
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Vayu Naidu – Dreams And The Writer
In dreams, I revel at the symbolism of shifting shapes. It takes a while to unpack meaning, and that is…
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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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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…