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.
Joanna Trollope speaks with Caroline Sanderson about lifelong readers, sibling value and gender issues in literature. RLF Trustee Joanna Trollope…
I’m inspired by novelists who reveal the extraordinary in what are patronisingly called ‘everyday people’; that refusal to confine interest…
I’ve spent a lot of my life reading on buses and trains; I read Moby Dick on a seventy-two hour…
Rick Stroud on how his daughter Nell Gifford fell in love with the circus. Reflecting on his daughter Nell Gifford’s…
Just as Walter Farley made me a jockey and a horse trainer, under Arthur Ransome’s tutelage I became an explorer…
Writing began as a way of escaping solitude. I was also a compulsive reader, especially of adventure stories, and fascinated…
Plot theorists say you must send your characters ‘into the woods’, but if you have vivid characters they will go…
Tina Pepler speaks with Jane Draycott about fictionalising trauma, the limits of the internet and cross-cultural mentoring. Tina Pepler speaks…
Think of yourself as a baby dropped in a swimming pool. You won’t drown, and… may even find you’re enjoying…
After years of dreaming, grappling with a story I never really imagined would be read by anyone but me, there…
Miranda Miller on dealing with political ideas in fiction. Miranda Miller considers some examples of the ‘political novel’, and reflects…
Mine feels like an ant hill in my brain. I tend to get it after finishing a book, when my…
