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.
Clare Bayley on the importance of getting your characters’ names right. Clare Bayley reflects on the process of choosing names…
Being able to spend three years in the company of extraordinary characters such as Ian Fleming, Rudyard Kipling, Dylan Thomas,…
Max Eilenberg speaks with John Siddique about love in children’s fiction, working in publishing and his musical passion. Max Eilenberg…
Under pressure, or in the grip of a story I can’t tear myself from, I occasionally read as I walk…
It is sometimes hard to distinguish between memorable books and inspiring books. I remember books for various reasons. It is…
Robin Blake on how he copes with a ‘poison-tipped’ question… In the course of his writing career, Robin Blake has…
John Pilkington on some luck in his literary life. John Pilkington shares several tales of serendipity, showing how luck has…
The life of a writer is always provisional, uncertain, insecure, fluctuating, and I cannot tell you how you might avoid…
James McConnachie challenges the idea of gendered books for children, and Mark McCrum introduces the strange world of the ghost…
I have been shut in the cells at the local police station, interviewed a rape counsellor and got lots of…
Writing, for me, is a journey of discovery. I don’t know how to reach my inner brain, my subconscious, without…
Tobias Jones on how living in Italy and habitually speaking Italian has affected his writing style. Having lived in Italy…
