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Susan Fletcher – The Writing Life
Perhaps, above all, this is the aspect of the writing life that I was most surprised by, and had never…
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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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Sue Teddern
Sue Teddern speaks with Bethan Roberts about the many facets of her career and the constraints of commercial writing. Sue…
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Tamar Yellin – The Writer As Outsider
Wasn’t every writer, like every Jew, an eternal alien? Didn’t it constitute their very state of being? Wasn’t every writer,…
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Linda Hoy
Baring my soul had not been easy. I’d consoled myself with the certainty that such a finely crafted novel would…
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The Reclusive Writer
Penny Hancock on why some writers prefer to remain anonymous. Penny Hancock considers some famous examples of writers who have…
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The Temple Bell
Chris Arthur on a talisman that passed through his hands on its way back home.
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Judith Allnatt – Why I Write
Like a sculptor who feels that the statue is inside the stone, the writer has a feeling that the whole…
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Ros Barber – The Writer As Outsider
This divorcee with three small boys in a two-bedroom flat, supported by Tax Credits… cannot afford to waste any more…
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Amanda Dalton & Shahrukh Husain
Amanda Dalton meets the deeper self who writes “from the gut”, and Shahrukh Husain confronts the challenges of mid-career genre-switching.…
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Fraser Grace – How Writing Changes The Writer
If I’m not able to write; if I’m too busy, or too sick, or on holiday being obliged not to…
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Catherine O’Flynn – Marketing And Me
I’ve posed with my elbows atop a pile of my own books, grinning unreliably like a disastrous QVC presenter. I’ve…
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Andrew Martin – My Reading Habits
My default reading is old thrillers, especially the novels of Simenon, of which there are a lot. My default reading…