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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.

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Collected Podcast

Elanor Dymott & Alex Martin

Elanor Dymott explains how research nearly derailed her career, and Alex Martin considers action vs. contemplation. Elanor Dymott explains how…

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

Jonny Wright – My Reading Habits

Newspaper stories act as one of my biggest writing inspirations. I’ve often come across a random story which gets my…

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Collected Article

The Story In The Attic

Alicia Foster on the perennial appeal of the attic room for artist and writers. Researching her study of the artist…

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

Amanda Mitchison – Why I Write

Whenever anything awful happened somewhere in the world, I would be sent there: fly out Wednesday; file the copy Friday,…

Lucy Moore
Collected Podcast

Lucy Moore, part 2

Lucy Moore speaks with James McConnachie about female French revolutionaries and rebellious maharanis. Lucy Moore speaks with James McConnachie about…

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Collected Article

Where Do You Get Your Ideas?

Katharine Grant wonders where her ideas come from. An author’s ideas are essential to the writing process, but how and…

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

Maria McCann – My Reading Habits

There’s a Library Shelf in the living room where all the through-traffic is stored; library books, obviously, plus books borrowed…

Maura Dooley
Collected Podcast

Maura Dooley

Maura Dooley speaks with Jane Draycott about Irish heritage, Iranian translation and a Jane Austen residency. Maura Dooley, former RLF…