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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.

Crow
Collected Article

Out Of The Woods

Claire Williamson writes about the value of turning to literature at times of personal grief. Claire Williamson writes about the…

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

Ros Barber – Being Genre Fluid

It was always my intention to bounce between eras and genres, like Iain Banks with and without his ‘M’. Looking…

Writing tools
Collected Podcast

How I Write, part 2

In ‘How I Write’, RLF writers discuss the different tools and technologies that help them produce their work. In this…

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

Simon Rae – Inspiration

Unplayable, my first novel for younger readers, was inspired by the need to write a bestseller as I teetered on…

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

Clare Chambers – Writer’s Block

In the afternoons where once I had written, I sat feeling depressed and lethargic. I tried exercise, baking, gardening and…

Old suitcase
Collected Article

Rags, Bones, and Magic

Gerry Cambridge on personal literary excavations, retrievals and early beginnings as a writer. Gerry Cambridge on personal literary excavations, retrievals…

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

Juliet Clare Bell – Rejection

I was determined to grow a thicker skin and get over the pain of rejection from fellow critique-group members —…

Brian Clegg
Collected Podcast

Brian Clegg

Brian Clegg speaks with Caroline Sanderson about the joys and challenges of writing about science. Brian Clegg speaks with Caroline…