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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.

Memory and writing
Collected Article

Memory And Writing

Rob Chapman on the elusive nature of memory. Most writers rely to a greater or lesser extent on memory, but…

James Woodall
Collected Podcast

James Woodall

James Woodall speaks with Robin Blake about accidental career influences, his love of Latin America and escaping biography. James Woodall…

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

Robyn Bolam – Why I Write

Feeling connected to the natural world is an important part of my life so I also write to remind myself…

Collected Audio

Kevin Clarke – How I Write

Last year in a screenplay a woman I had expected to be a big supporting character though to the end…

Collected Article

The Ladies’ Excuse Me

Brian Keaney on a family story that changed his life. When Brian Keaney’s father and uncle became estranged after both…

Location and the writer
Collected Podcast

Location And The Writer, part 9

In Location And The Writer, we visit a wistful nature reserve, an unusual set of archives and a post-industrial hometown.…

Chairs
Collected Article

A Chair Of One’s Own

Alex Games reflects on the importance for a writer of finding the right chair. Although writers are often asked about…