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Regi Claire – Writer’s Block
I got diagnosed with bowel cancer. A blow like that leaves its mark, even after a complete recovery. If you…
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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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Jonathan Edwards – The Classic Book I’d Like To Re-write
The Mabinogion, then, has some fantastical and imaginative tales, and I’m especially drawn to the way it deals with loss…
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Martin MacInnes – The Festival Experience
I could do this, relish this. A huge moment. Everything was perfect. This was when I decided to enter the…
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Out Of The Woods
Claire Williamson writes about the value of turning to literature at times of personal grief. Claire Williamson writes about the…
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Andrew Miller – The Future Of Literature
To write, to read — these are beautiful and slow activities, but in this part of the world – pandemics…
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Ros Barber – Being Genre Fluid
It was always my intention to bounce between eras and genres, like Iain Banks with and without his ‘M’. Looking…
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How I Write, part 2
In ‘How I Write’, RLF writers discuss the different tools and technologies that help them produce their work. In this…
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Simon Rae – Inspiration
Unplayable, my first novel for younger readers, was inspired by the need to write a bestseller as I teetered on…
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Clare Chambers – Writer’s Block
In the afternoons where once I had written, I sat feeling depressed and lethargic. I tried exercise, baking, gardening and…
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Amanda Mitchison – Letter To My Teachers
Of course, I got by far the better end of the deal. Shosh, you proved to be a fantastic teacher.…
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Rags, Bones, and Magic
Gerry Cambridge on personal literary excavations, retrievals and early beginnings as a writer. Gerry Cambridge on personal literary excavations, retrievals…
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Alexandra Benedict – The Writer And Nature
More and more studies are being undertaken on how being by water, and nature in general, help thinking and mental…