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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.

Saleh Addonia by Rob Taylor for WritersMosaic

WritersMosaic Article

The Ferry

Read ‘The Ferry’, a short story by Saleh Addonia. Part of WritersMosaic‘s new fiction series.

Jamie Lee Searle

Collected Article

Translating and Writing

Jamie Lee Searle on how her career as a literary translator helped develop her writerly voice.

Paul Bailey by David Levenson

RLF News Article

Remembering Paul Bailey

A look back at the career of RLF trustee and grants beneficiary Paul Bailey, who died on 27 October 2024.

Fellows News December 2024

RLF News Article

RLF Fellows’ News: December 2024

Publishing news, events and appearances, awards, plays, broadcasts and more from our RLF Fellows, writers and WritersMosaic contributors, from December…

What We Leave We Carry Nov 24

RLF News Article

What We Leave We Carry: November 2024

This month’s What We Leave We Carry episodes features stories from Namibian, Ugandan, Romanian and Indian migrants to the UK.

Collected Podcast

Focusing on location

C.D. Rose, Elizabeth Cook and Mark Blayney explore the locations that have inspired and informed their writing.

Anna Ellory

RLF News Video

My Writing Life: Anna Ellory

“Once you’ve got a clean sentence, don’t mess with it” – RLF Grants Beneficiary Anna Ellory

Stephanie Norgate's notebooks

Collected Article

Notebooks, cameras and the process of creating

Stephanie Norgate looks to some of literature’s most prolific notebook writers – including John Cheever and Virginia Woolf – to…

Collected Podcast

Mark Blacklock

Caroline Sanderson interviews novelist and culture historian Dr Mark Blacklock.

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

Collected Article

Seven suggestions to make you a better writer

Seven tips to help you become a better writer, tried and tested by our RLF Fellows and drawn from our…

Bram Stoker by W. & D. Downey, 1906 portrait and archive letter permissions courtesy of © Noel Dobbs, courtesy of the Bram Stoker Estate Collection

RLF News Article

From the Archive: Bram Stoker (1911)

Weeks after the discovery of a previously “lost” Bram Stoker story and on the anniversary of his birth, we’ve taken…

A seat under a tree in sunny garden of Shandy Hall

Collected Article

No mood to write

Penny Boxall looks to Tristram Shandy author Laurence Sterne for inspiration on dealing with writer’s block.