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.
Penny Hancock speaks with John Greening about crime writing, characterisation and real-life inspiration. Penny Hancock speaks with John Greening about…
Recently I fell out of love with the written word; so glib, so manipulable and so manipulative. I started resenting…
One of you once told me you thought I’d been very brave to put so much of myself into the…
Cal Smyth on researching his crime series. Cal Smyth describes the true events that inspired his Balkan-set crime series, and…
I write because I can make a world in my head come alive on the stage or screen. I write…
In ‘My Hero’, RLF writers tell us about personal heroes and the impact they’ve had. In ‘My Hero’, we talk…
I’ve heard tell of the psychopathology of answering machines, the ghost-in-the-machine poetry of microprocessors, but I’ve watched the use of…
While I was shy and embarrassed to begin with, I soon became obsessed. I didn’t like the person I was…
Nicola Baldwin on writing plays about medical science. Nicola Baldwin describes her first forays into writing about medical science, and…
Be yourself. Write the story that is growing in your head, not the one you think an editor might like…
Mark McCrum speaks with James McConnachie about travel writing and race in South Africa and Australia. Mark McCrum speaks with…
I met the real-life inspiration for one of the women characters, Carolyn Cassady, wife of Neal, or ‘Dean’ as he…
