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.
Christina Koning on how researching a novel set in wartime helped her to deal with the pandemic. Researching her latest…
Planning, mapping out a plot, creating characters, building the world they inhabit, is itself a creative process. Planning, mapping out…
I am a crime writer, but all of my books represent a combination of crime, romance, horror and family saga,…
Jon Mayhew goes feral on the Wirral, and Sue Roe surprises herself with Leicester. Jon Mayhew lauds Eastham Woods on…
What starts off as marketing turns into googling yourself, and checking for likes and dislikes of your videos… a two-hour…
My father taught me to garden, to be handy with a chisel, to follow a circuit diagram; my mother, how…
If Rejection is something to be embraced, stimulating the pin-up virtue of our times, resilience, why do I struggle so…
Katherine Clements on the importance of research. Katherine Clements reflects on how immersing herself in research helps her to envisage…
I thought about the Hebrides, looked up crofts on Right Move, and then realised that even there I couldn’t get…
Tim Pears speaks with John Greening about tending historical, eschewing psychology and the joy of hands-on work. Tim Pears speaks…
Writing a story is too solitary for me to stick at it for long. I want an audience, and collaborators.…
If we take ‘playing God’ to mean controlling, shaping, balancing, fore-knowing outcomes, rendering meaningful the chaos of life ; yes…
