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.
Stephanie Norgate shares her notebook practice, and confesses to a deep fascination with the notebooks of others. Stephanie Norgate explores…
I copied any skill I admired, including knitting and skipping, which worried my father for a while. Then I wrote…
Use words like Impressionists use paint; dab at the scene, use the colours and sensations to fill the reader’s head.…
Once I start writing I stay away from anything similar; the temptation to mimic someone else’s perfect prose is too…
Marcus Chown on living through a London lockdown. Marcus Chown describes the early months of the lockdown in London, and…
Growing up in a family of six children, writing was always a way to make myself heard. Even if, for…
I can’t imagine that anyone has conveyed the feeling of nostalgia better than Evelyn Waugh in Brideshead; nostalgia for youth…
Alyson Hallett speaks with Jane Draycott about artistic stones, anonymous creativity and the legacy of a secret affair. Alyson Hallett…
Why would that artist who lived many years ago, still be of interest to you today? And at the end…
A block, to me, is a stopping of sorts, a hindrance, an impediment. But the only way to overcome that…
If I’m not terrified then I’m not challenging myself sufficiently; writing is terrifying, therefore it’s worth doing. If I’m not…
Penny Hancock on discovering some previously unknown aspects of her family home. Penny Hancock describes an unforeseen benefit of months…
