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.
Penny Hancock on why some writers prefer to remain anonymous. Penny Hancock considers some famous examples of writers who have…
Chris Arthur on a talisman that passed through his hands on its way back home.
Like a sculptor who feels that the statue is inside the stone, the writer has a feeling that the whole…
This divorcee with three small boys in a two-bedroom flat, supported by Tax Credits… cannot afford to waste any more…
Amanda Dalton meets the deeper self who writes “from the gut”, and Shahrukh Husain confronts the challenges of mid-career genre-switching.…
If I’m not able to write; if I’m too busy, or too sick, or on holiday being obliged not to…
I’ve posed with my elbows atop a pile of my own books, grinning unreliably like a disastrous QVC presenter. I’ve…
My default reading is old thrillers, especially the novels of Simenon, of which there are a lot. My default reading…
Chris Arthur discusses whether writing essays requires specialist literary knowledge. Chris Arthur reflects on what the essay form means to…
Far from home, in a new language, I could reinvent myself and write myself into the land. Far from home,…
Eight-thirty every weekday, I train. On the best of bad days, I’m back at the computer, just writing; if it…
During a year of crisis and darkness, I had a revelation. What if life works this way too? What if,…
