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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.

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

Yvonne Coppard – Why I Write

I love the power that story has to change the world; the inspirational memoir of someone more courageous than I…

Minstrel with banjo
Collected Article

Minstrel Boy

Donny O’Rourke on how the singer-songwriters of the 1970s helped to shape his poetic consciousness. Listening as a schoolboy to…

Meagan Delahunt
Collected Podcast

Meaghan Delahunt

Meaghan Delahunt speaks with Cherise Saywell about revolutionary beginnings, her physical drafting process and Colonial perceptions. Meaghan Delahunt speaks with…

Samuel Pepys by John Hayls (portrait)
Collected Article

Pepys: Spirit Of His Age

John Pilkington on why the great diarist Samuel Pepys inspires him. As a writer of historical fiction, John Pilkington has…

Mimi Khalvati
Collected Podcast

Mimi Khalvati

Mimi Khalvati speaks with John Greening about Persian origins, abstraction and constrained forms and co-founding the Poetry School. Mimi Khalvati…