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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.

Louise Foxcroft
Collected Video

Drugs, Diets And Disgraceful Attitudes

Louise Foxcroft describes her researches into drug addiction, diets and modern menopause. Louise Foxcroft describes her researches into the varied…

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

Jennifer Potter – How I Write

My starting point for the Jamestown book was a manuscript list of nearly sixty women sent over to Virginia, which…

Nick Holdstock
Collected Podcast

Nick Holdstock

Nick Holdstock speaks with John Siddique about the “Chinese Dream”, Doris Lessing and serendipitous book finds. Nick Holdstock speaks with…

Old man's hand
Collected Article

Holdalls, Sheds And Pineapple Squidgies

Anna Woodford on what teaching creative writing has taught her. Running creative writing workshops for a variety of different groups,…

Glencoe in Scotland
Collected Podcast

Susan Fletcher & Lucy Flannery

Susan Fletcher considers outsiderhood in life and fiction, and Lucy Flannery writes a novel by mistake. Susan Fletcher explores the…

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

Lucy Jago – My Reading Habits

My natural habitat is a book-lined room, so a habit can be something in which we swathe ourselves, symbolic and…

Naked mannequin in spotlight
Collected Article

Naked In The Spotlight

Brian McCabe on the joys – and terrors – of reading his poetry to an audience. Fifty years after taking…