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.
I both know how it works, and don’t know how it works; the best metaphor I can come up with…
Paula Byrne speaks with James McConnachie about Jane Austen’s laptop, recovering lost voices and partial lives. Paula Byrne speaks with…
“Murder your darlings” doesn’t come from a Calvinist idea that anything that gives pleasure must be sinful; it’s about forcing…
First I get the central character. Then two ideas I thought were completely separate suddenly collide, revealing themselves to be…
Karen Wallace describes a journey down memory lane. In search of inspiration for her first novel, Karen Wallace went back…
The industry is all about minimising risk and so you yourself have to take that risk. Obviously to take big…
In ‘Break Point’, Pascale Petit describes a life-shaking family re-emergence, and Penny Hancock takes us through setback and loss to…
Puzzles, mirrors, infinite regressions, paradoxes; these perfectly crafted, erudite stories – despite their appeal to the intellect – grip like…
He paid his groom an extra five pounds a year to wake him up early every morning with a cup…
In time of war you can be shot for it, but as Fraser Grace finds, collaboration is an occupational hazard…
I remember the fresh surge of determination as I turned back to my screen, applied myself once more to the…
Rupert Christiansen speaks with Frances Byrnes about roots and careers, being a ‘jobbing writer’ and being inspired by Don Draper.…
