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.
Aisha Zia on site-specific plays and representing communities. Aisha Zia explains how she moved from image editor to playwright, and…
I was slow to read but I loved books. Even now, after writing a dozen books, I still always look…
Gerry Cambridge on his enriching and at times exasperating relationship with an extraordinary instrument. Art forms often have similarities based…
The list of Important Books That I Haven’t Read is not as long as it was, but I’m now virtually…
Procrastination can actually be vital to the writing; the key is to use procrastination as a well-earned break. Procrastination can…
Roopa Farooki speaks with Jane Draycott about deception, inner monsters and diverse characters in literature for young people. Roopa Farooki…
Suddenly, I’m shutting my eyes and plotting the distance as a story line, between the gaping dots, to shape structure.…
Georges Simenon had the breathtaking effrontery to turn one very long bar crawl, punctuated by chain-smoking stews… into that completely…
By the time I get to the boggy third quarter of writing a novel… I’m thoroughly sick of the ‘guests’.…
Tiffany Murray on how the writer articulates the ever-increasing threat to their natural environments. As a writer inspired by the…
Then, one summer, everything changed; I discovered Cocteau, Sartre and Camus and left comics behind… for a while at least.…
The almost daily drip-feed of doom-laden news that you children – my main readership – no longer read; you’re too…
