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.
Rebecca proved that literary merit is not the antithesis of a good yarn; it is possible, perhaps preferable, to do…
Marcy Kahan is respectfully ambivalent about playwriting manuals, and Zoe Marriott finds the north star in her fantasy novels’ characters.…
You’ll contort yourself into someone you don’t recognise… and then surface, to write the novels you dreamed of writing. You’ll…
If I say I can’t imagine you, and I’ve never tried to, please don’t take it the wrong way; it’s…
Maybe, at some point, people will be given implants that will allow words and images to be sent directly to…
By reading you learn about pacing, plotting, character and style and you learn what makes a book memorable. Without even…
Valerie Gillies, Helen Grant, Tracey Herd and Sheena Wilkinson on life in lockdown. Valerie Gillies describes a changed world; Helen…
You believe that ‘C’ is The End, and that means you’re staying put when all you want is to go.…
Joanna Trollope speaks with Caroline Sanderson about psychology, Jane Austen and taking children seriously. RLF Trustee Joanna Trollope speaks with…
I didn’t know how to make sense of losing her. Writing became a place of refuge. I didn’t know how…
We all have our own “spots of time” as Wordsworth defines them, intensely felt moments at the imaginative and emotional…
Avoiding eye contact with the writing tools; laptop screen, pen, notebook, backs of envelopes, seething with undecipherable scribbles. A swift…
