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News & Features

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.

Bethan Roberts
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Bethan Roberts, part 1

Bethan Roberts speaks with Catherine O’Flynn about storytelling, abandoning literary theory and Elvis. Bethan Roberts speaks with Catherine O’Flynn about…

Childhood shoes
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Location And The Writer, part 23

In “Location and the Writer”, Caroline Sanderson compares memory with reality, Paul Dodgson returns to a place he once escaped,…

Bath love
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Poetry Break with Rebecca Goss

Poetry Break: Rebecca Goss and Julia Copus discuss classic poems by Amy Lowell and Charlotte Mew. Rebecca Goss and our…

Writing time
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Laura Barnett & Ros Schwartz

Laura Barnett considers the myth that writing needs a lot of spare time, and Ros Schwartz explores exciting developments for…

Ben Musgrave
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Ben Musgrave

Ben Musgrave speaks with Ann Morgan about cross-cultural writing, Zoom drama and trusting yourself. Ben Musgrave speaks with Ann Morgan…

Tredegar brick
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Location And The Writer, part 22

In “Location and the Writer”, Babs Horton takes us to the ravaged landscapes of Tredegar, Brian Clegg recalls a famous…

Rhiannon Tise
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Rhiannon Tise

Rhiannon Tise speaks with Ann Morgan about creative collaboration and adapting the classics for radio. Rhiannon Tise speaks with Ann…

Bird in a gilded cage
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My Genre’s Status, part 3

In ‘My Genre’s Status’, RLF writers speak about the limitations of genre and their struggle against being pigeonholed. In the…

Frog and butterfly
Collected Podcast

Bethan Roberts & Lawrence Sail

Bethan Roberts explores the processes by which truth transmutes into fiction, and Lawrence Sail considers the balance between recognition and…

Newcastle
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Location And The Writer, part 21

In ‘Location and the Writer’, Karl Whitney takes us to the Central Motorway area of Newcastle upon Tyne, and Zoë…

Ros Schwartz
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Ros Schwartz

Ros Schwartz speaks with Ann Morgan about translation and ventriloquism, the value of untranslated words and modern challenges. Ros Schwartz…

winner
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My Genre’s Status, part 2

In ‘My Genre’s Status’, RLF writers speak about the challenges of working in a currently-popular genre. In the second installment…