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My Writing Life: Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson. © Neil Gower.
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1. What book should every writer read?
Fowler’s Modern English Usage. It is idiosyncratic and not always easy to find your way around, but it is full of sound, authoritative advice on how to wr...
Collected: The Podcast – April 2026
Sara Shaarawi; Hanif Kureishi (courtesy of the Kureishi Family).
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This month, Collected: The Podcasts host Ann Morgan was joined by playwright, scriptwriter and producer Sara Shaarawi, who discussed her “accidental” route int...
My Writing Life: Jill Dawson
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1. What book should every writer read?
I believe we should read what we love, that’s all. No rules or recommendations, we are all different.
2. What is your typical writing day like?
Wake up around 6 am: lie there and t...
Crown of Blood: adapting the Scottish play into the Yoruba play
Director Mojisola Kareem (right) works with actors Adeniyi Olusola Morolahun and Omobolanle Akanbi during Crown of Blood rehearsals.
Earlier this year Crown of Blood, playwright and RLF Fellow Oladipo ‘Dipo’ Agboluaje’s Yoruba adaptation o...
Blythe Spirit: Ian Collins on Ronald Blythe
Ronald Blythe © Kurt Hutton.
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By rights Ronald Blythe, born into poverty in 1922, should have been a beneficiary rather than a benefactor of the Royal Literary Fund. But over a century of frugal and fruitful life, he had good...
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The RLF helps writers in financial need and annually delivers over £7 million in grants, education, community, and workplace programmes.
Author: Forgetfulness, Night Window, The Underground Cabaret, New York Hotel, Identity Papers. Translator: Max Jacob, Pierre Reverdy, Gezim Hajdari, Ivano Fermini.
Award-winning disabled author, poet, journalist, storyteller. Extra ordinary not predicted life. Teasing open the door to let in disability narratives. Activist leftie old punk cat mum.
Author of upcoming novel WET INK (Spring 2027), Fellow with the Royal Literary Fund, writing coach, writing tutor, and lover of words or words adjacent culture. Based in London, UK.
Writer. My Beautiful Laundrette. Sammy and Rosie Get Laid. Venus. The Mother. Le Week End. The Buddha of Suburbia. The Black Album. Winner of the Whitbread Prize, and the PEN/Pinter Prize. Fellow of King's College London and awarded the CBE.
Born in the city, lived in the country, work in the city as a journalist, editor and writer. Interested in people, places and things.
‘Britain's finest living nature writer' -The Times. Only person to have won Wainwright Prize for nature writing twice. ST best-seller. Columnist. Historian. Author of Six Weeks, ‘The most moving single book on the Great War' -Literary Review. Etc
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