Brian Keaney – Letter To My Readers
I want your attention. That’s why I spend all those hours hammering away at a keyboard. It’s all about you.…
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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Article
Walking In The Footsteps Of Thoreau
Linda Hoy on an early campaigner for the environment. Linda Hoy reflects on the contribution made by Thoreau to present…
Collected
Video
What’s Your Desert Island Book?
Writers discuss their desert island book. Hugh Stoddart, Courttia Newland, Marina Benjamin, Esther Selsdon, Nicola Baldwin and Mario Petrucci discuss…
Doug Johnstone – Letter To My Younger Self
Space is still exciting and you wouldn’t believe some of the discoveries scientists have made. But sadly, aliens still haven’t…
Collected
Podcast
Dipo Agboluaje
Dipo Agboluaje speaks with Gabriel Gbadamosi about growing up in Britain and Nigeria, the themes of his plays and the…
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Audio
Siân Rees – How I Write
I am no longer young or teetotal. I have a respectable number of friends, and a couple of dependants, and…
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Audio
Marcy Kahan – The Best Advice I Ever Received
I went back to my hotel room, leafed through the mound of tattered pages on the desk, and wished with…
Collected
Article
Rejection
Editor James McConnachie on the delicate art of rejection… As editor of The Author, James McConnachie has had to develop…
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Audio
Brian Keaney – Why I Write
I carried around in my head a whole pantheon of dead family members, to each of whom a story was…
Collected
Podcast
Ann Morgan
Ann Morgan speaks with Caroline Sanderson about reading the world, nature vs nurture and the benefits of parenthood. Ann Morgan…
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Audio
Elanor Dymott – Life-changing Literature
As darkness fell on each painful night, I reconstructed the book from memory, trying to get a little further each…
Anne Wilson – Writers Who Inspire Me
Quality TV drama writers inspire me to script scenes exactly as they happen in my head and to learn from…