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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.

Train and river
Collected Podcast

Linda Cracknell & Dan Richards

Linda Cracknell follows Robert Louis Stevenson to France, and Dan Richards visits Tove Jansson’s Finnish archipelago. Linda Cracknell travels to…

Illustration by Fran Pulido of two books that look like open books next to a microphone.
Collected Audio

Bill Kirton

Writers use people’s experiences as their raw materials; distorting, or otherwise exaggerating them. But for a reason. Writers use people’s…

Illustration by Fran Pulido of two books that look like open books next to a microphone.
Collected Audio

Tamar Yellin – Being Genre Fluid

Didn’t Shakespeare combine the quotidian with the supernatural, the mythical with the philosophical, all the time? Didn’t Shakespeare combine the…

Jellyfish
Collected Article

Culling Words

Chris Arthur explores the world of obscure collective nouns, arguing that some should be retired for good. Obscure collective nouns…

Valerie Gillies
Collected Podcast

Valerie Gillies

Valerie Gillies speaks with Doug Johnstone about poetry in Scotland, studying in India and arts-based health work. Valerie Gillies speaks…

Illustration by Fran Pulido of two books that look like open books next to a microphone.
Collected Audio

Mark Illis – Rejection

Each rejection tends to have its own unique characteristics, and should therefore be responded to accordingly. Each rejection tends to…