WritersMosaic
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No facts, only versions
Memoirs are as much about what is excluded as what is included. This edition examines how you can evoke 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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RLF Fellows’ News: April 2024
Publishing News RLF Fellow Trish Cooke’s new children’s book, The Magic Callaloo, is set to be published by Walker Books…
Collected
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Susan Fletcher on outsiders in fiction – literal and imagined
I’ve always known that I’ve preferred to be outside. To be an outsider – literally, and, specifically, amongst wild places…
Collected
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How returning to Nigeria turned Oladipo Agboluaje into a storyteller
“There are two ways to lose oneself: by segregation in the particular or by dilution in the ‘universal’.” — Aimé…
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My Writing Life: Dreda Say Mitchell
Dreda Say Mitchell is a best-selling and award-winning author appointed an MBE by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth for her services…
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My Writing Life: Paula Hawkins
Paula Hawkins worked as a journalist for fifteen years before turning to fiction. She is the author of two #1 New York…
Collected
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Cynthia Rogerson on being an expat writer
This is what I’ve come to believe. No matter how long I live in a country I wasn’t born in,…
WritersMosaic
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Imaging Auschwitz
Is it possible to depict dramatically The Holocaust without descending into morbid fascination?
Collected
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Ann Morgan rewrites the publishing fairy tale
There is a myth about the business of being an author. It goes something like this: “Once upon a time…
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“The best thing about all of this is that it matters” – Running a public education programme
RLF Fellow Dr Kerry Young has spent seven years running Writing for Life workshops. But what exactly is writing for…
Collected
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Chris Arthur on “odd-object” essays
Adam Gopnik says there are three types of essay: review essays, memoir essays, and what he calls ‘odd-object’ essays. I’m…
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“Writing gave me back joy” – How writing for self-expression can foster well-being
“It’s all about people expressing or discovering what kind of stuff they’ve got in the back catalogue of themselves, the…