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.

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Varifocal

Dilys Rose considers how a change of narrative voice can affect the focus of a narrative. Narrative voice, whether first,…

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

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Jackie Wills – Writers Who Inspire Me

Writers in my two groups have have won prizes and published extensively, but what is infinitely engaging is leaning in…

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Dipo Agboluaje & Penny Hancock

Dipo Agboluaje explores the effects of later boyhood in Nigeria, and Penny Hancock wonders whether she has a real job.…

Illustration by Fran Pulido of two books that look like open books next to a microphone.

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Yvonne Coppard – Why I Write

I love the power that story has to change the world; the inspirational memoir of someone more courageous than I…

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Lucinda Hawksley – Letter To My Younger Self

Don’t be too grateful to anyone for giving you work. You have the talent they need. Don’t be too grateful…

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Minstrel Boy

Donny O’Rourke on how the singer-songwriters of the 1970s helped to shape his poetic consciousness. Listening as a schoolboy to…

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Katharine Quarmby – How Writing Changes The Writer

Their care and attention, setting words on paper, makes you feel that thrill of recognition; you know with certainty that…

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Meaghan Delahunt

Meaghan Delahunt speaks with Cherise Saywell about revolutionary beginnings, her physical drafting process and Colonial perceptions. Meaghan Delahunt speaks with…

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