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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.

Collected Article

Cooking The Books

Donny O’Rourke explores some culinary memories. Childhood memories of watching his mother cook inspired Donny O’Rourke’s lifelong interest in cooking…

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

Tania Hershman – Why I Write

For the first forty-four years of my life I’ve always felt in some way or other, myself, wrong. For the…

Translator's art
Collected Podcast

The Translator’s Subtle Art

Sarah Ardizzone and Euan Cameron speak with Nick Caistor about the joys, challenges and constraints of translation. Sarah Ardizzone and…

Scarlet ribbons
Collected Article

Scarlet Ribbons

Rosemary Bailey on bringing out a new edition of a book about her late brother. Twenty years after first publishing…

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

Lucy Flannery – Why I Write

I was constructing narrative long before I could actually write it. If no one ever read or performed my work…

Lorna Thorpe
Collected Podcast

Lorna Thorpe

Lorna Thorpe speaks with Geoff Hattersley about starting late as a writer, her wild youth, literary influences and her six…

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

Neil Rollinson – How I Write

These fanciful accounts seek to minimise the role of the artist or the writer as if they were merely a…

Only Connect
Collected Article

‘Only Connect’

John Greening reflects on poetic coincidence. Can coincidence, that seemingly magical conjunction of events, play a part in poetry? John…

Charles Boyle
Collected Podcast

Charles Boyle

Charles Boyle speaks with Julia Copus about his female alter-ego, the role of small presses, and the abiding influence of…

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

Geoff Barker – Why I Write

Having left a completed draft well alone for a month or more I go back, cooler, chastened, ready to repent…