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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.

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

Collected Audio

Amanda Dalton – My Reading Habits

I keep what I read because the object conjures the ghost of a person, a place, or time, and the…

Collected Podcast

Cynthia Rogerson & Anna Reynolds

Cynthia Rogerson considers the pleasures and pitfalls of the writing life, and Anna Reynolds disowns the ‘room of one’s own’.…

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

Collected Audio

David Spencer – The Classic Book I’d Like To Re-write

It annoys me that Romeo is fickle; that chance plays a major role, or that Romeo evades the death sentence…

Collected Audio

Sarah Duncan – The Best Advice I Ever Received

Who was the woman? Why was she vulnerable to an affair? Who did she have it with? Why did she…

Collected Article

Stuck In The Valley

Ray French on how an outdated image of Welshness has overshadowed Welsh writing. Eighty years after its publication, Ray French…

Collected Audio

Alex Games – How I Write

If the Muse is playing hard to get, I start with a scene I feel I know better, and if…

Collected Audio

Christina Hopkinson – How I Write

Plans so detailed as to be half a book in themselves. Finishing off each day with a paragraph in capitals…

Collected Podcast

Julian Turner

Julian Turner speaks with Amanda Whittington about metaphor, creativity and spirituality in literature and psychotherapy. Julian Turner speaks with Amanda…