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News & Features

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.

Fraser Harrison
RLF News Video

My Writing Life: Fraser Harrison

“Stamina is really important. And if you haven’t got it, then you’re going to starve.” – RLF beneficiary Fraser Harrison

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RLF News Article

RLF Fellows’ News: January 2025

New books, productions, events and award news from our RLF writers and WritersMosaic contributors for January 2025.

Matthew Barry
RLF News Article

My Writing Life: Matthew Barry

“Stop thinking about it, stop procrastinating, just write it.” – BAFTA-winning screenwriter Matthew Barry.

Claire Pollard
Collected Article

Serious Nonsense

Poet Clare Pollard on the uplifting power of poetic nonsense, including Lewis Carroll, John Taylor and Edward Lear’s Jumblies.

Rebecca Watts cake celebrating her book The Met Office Advises Caution
Collected Podcast

Writing milestones

Rebecca Watts, Jeremy Treglown, Jini Reddy, Guinevere Glasfurd and Rebecca Colby on the milestones in their writing lives.

Nikki Giovanni remembered
WritersMosaic Article

Nikki Giovanni remembered

The poet and civil rights activist Nikki Giovanni has died. Earlier this year, she talked with WritersMosaic Director Colin Grant.…

Illustration by Fran Pulido of woman by window thinking what to write with book birds flying past window.
Collected Article

Ten Perfect Places to Write

From libraries to castles and dining room tables to beds, our RLF Fellows invite us in to see the places…

Saleh Addonia by Rob Taylor for WritersMosaic
WritersMosaic Article

The Ferry

Read ‘The Ferry’, a short story by Saleh Addonia. Part of WritersMosaic‘s new fiction series.

Jamie Lee Searle
Collected Article

Translating and Writing

Jamie Lee Searle on how her career as a literary translator helped develop her writerly voice.