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My Writing Life: Penny Hancock
“If you don’t turn up to work, the muse won’t know where to find you.” – Penny Hancock’s writing life.
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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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Meet our 2025 Reading Round Fellows
Introducing the RLF’s 2025 Reading Round Fellows – the professional writers who lead our unique community reading groups.
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RLF Fellows’ News: July 2025
The latest news, book releases, events, appearances and more featuring our RLF and WritersMosaic writers, coming up in July 2025.
Collected
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Ukraine’s writers at war, and the life and death of Victoria Amelina
Julian Evans on the life and work of Orwell Prize-winning Ukrainian author Victoria Amelina, and the fragmented nature of writing…
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What We Leave We Carry: June 2025
This month’s What We Leave We Carry podcast episodes from WritersMosaic features migrants from Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan and Tibet.
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Playing Cards
Jo Clement reads her poem, ‘Playing Cards’. Part of WritersMosaic’s series of films in collaboration with the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry…
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RLF writers join forces with Winnie-the-Pooh
Jane Riordan and RLF writers Sheena Wilkinson, Amanda Swift, Jasbinder Bilan, Sophie Kirtley, Jim Beckett, Anna Wilson, Teresa Heapy, Maisie…
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My Writing Life: Annie Siddons
“If you desire stability, holidays, nice stuff, and not being poleaxed by anxiety, choose another career.” – Annie Siddons
Collected
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Making the work invisible: Trish Cooke on Alterations
RLF Fellow Trish Cooke on adapting Michael Abbensetts’ 1978 Windrush era play Alterations for the National Theatre.
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Remembering Parnia Abbasi
WritersMosaic’s Sana Nassari on the poetry of young Iranian writer Parnia Abbasi, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike on…
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My Writing Life: Alex Wong
“There are no practical revelations I wish I’d had earlier. I only wish I’d been able to save myself some…
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The Silence of Plants by Wislawa Szymborsk
Jason Allen-Paisant reads ‘The Silence of Plants’ by Wislawa Szymborska. Part of WritersMosaic’s series of poetry films in collaboration with…