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The Early Years
Laura Barnett on how she reconciled her role as a new mother with her writer self. Laura Barnett explores the…
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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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Alan Jenkins – Letter To My Readers
Can I even dare to hope that somewhere out there are readers with all my volumes, from the very first…
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How I Write, part 3
In ‘How I Write’, RLF writers explore the age-old question of where ideas come from and how they get transformed…
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Kate Rhodes – The Perfect Place To Write
The Scillies are the place my imagination retreats to when I’m grappling with a plot, or a new set of…
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Mirza Waheed – Letter To My Teachers
We didn’t know that the ‘Firaq’ in Ghulam Nabi Firaq was a takhalus, a pen name that poets in the…
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Penny Boxall – Dreams And The Writer
I mentally wander. I encourage that same delicious distractibility which makes me such a poor listener at lectures. We dream…
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Jonathan Edwards – The Best Advice I Ever Received
Hugo William’s advice is that voice when I need it. My job isn’t to get better as a writer. My…
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Beyond The Mother Tongue
Paul Dodgson on his experience of learning Welsh as a second language. Paul Dodgson on his experience of learning Welsh…
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Susan Fletcher – Getting Published: What No One Tells You
Publication is wonderful — both euphoric and humbling. But in the days and weeks that follow a book’s release, I…
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Jeremy Treglown
Jeremy Treglown speaks with Ann Morgan about his career as a literary biographer and critic. Jeremy Treglown speaks with Ann…
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Clare Morgan – Writers And Deadlines
Isn’t that deadline a manifestation of yourself, your hopes, your ambitions, your drive to produce something of substance that, against…
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Julianne Pachico – Life-changing Literature
To my parents’ credit (or detriment), they never censored anything. I loved Chuck Palahniuk’s earliest novels: Fight Club, Survivor. I…