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Our podcast, Collected, is back!
Honest and heartfelt discussions about putting words on the page
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Collected: December 2024
Using translation to develop one's voice, nonsense rhyming with Edward Lear and counting writerly milestones.
Collected: November 2024
Taking Laurence Sterne's advice to deal with writer's block, turning to extreme minds for inspiration, and using notebooks to get the work done.
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Collected: October 2024
Elvis' rise to fame through the eyes of his mum, how Tove Jansson created the Moomins, what keeps us writing and how we really feel about genre
Collected: September 2024
As we ease into the autumn, our writing fellows discuss how to become a ghost, what's in a name, and how their surroundings affects their writing
The repudiation of shame in the fiction of Edna O’Brien
RLF Fellow Martina Evans on Edna O'Brien
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Collected: August 2024
"All my writing life, I had been an observer. Now, I was creating something tangible." This month's essays and podcasts from our writers
Collected: July 2024
This month Mary Colson writes about her unease at finishing a book, Amanda Dalton discusses the act of conjuring ghosts and RLF Fellows talk about their…
Collected: June 2024 - How do you recover from failure?
This month, Doug Johnstone on lessons learned from failure, Catherine O'Flynn on broken utopias, plus our podcasts on writing technique, being published…
Collected: Is Writing A Real Job?
Penny Hancock explores people's perceptions of the writing life, Donny O'Rourke celebrates Glasgow's tenements, and three writers discuss writing…
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Eleven tips to help you become a better writer
"You have to sit down and do it and keep on doing it until you get there"
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Collected: Elizabeth Cook in conversation with Ann Morgan
"I have a feeling there was a poem here and I need to let it unfold and give it space"
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