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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.

Collected Article

In Search Of Golden Chamber Pots

Nick Holdstock on what a difference being published makes. Nick Holdstock reflects on how his attitude towards his writing has…

A moment with Elizabeth Speller
Collected Video

Training and Trains

Elizabeth Speller on getting started, and staying away from trains. Elizabeth Speller explains how she got her start as a…

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

Brian Keaney – Writer’s Block

If Jasper represented writer’s block, then what I needed was a bigger, meaner cat that represented inspiration. I decided to…

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

Vayu Naidu – Writers Who Inspire Me

Just when Freddie Mercury was taking off in our dichotomised university lives in India, came Keki Daruwalla… the Parsi policeman…

Charles Jennings
Collected Podcast

Charles Jennings, part 1

Charles Jennings speaks with Catherine O’Flynn about magazine journalism and his haphazard early career. Charles Jennings speaks with Catherine O’Flynn…

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

Sophia Bennett – How I Write

Many, many ideas die a quiet death; they weren’t strong enough or they’ve been done before. But some stick. Many,…

A trout
Collected Article

The Thing About Poetry…

Fraser Grace on what poetry means to him. Playwright Fraser Grace makes a late reconnection with poetry — and finds…

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

Ros Barber – Why I Write

If I’d known finishing the book would have necessitated processing my brother’s death I probably wouldn’t have started it. If…

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

Tamar Yellin – Why I Write

I wrote before I could write. Notebooks filled with lines of scribble and illustrations to represent the stories I knew…

Michael McMillan
Collected Podcast

Michael McMillan

Michael McMillan speaks with Gabriel Gbadamosi about childhood, his famous ‘front room’, music and the 70s. Michael McMillan speaks with…