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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 Podcast

Helena Drysdale & Nicola Baldwin

Helena Drysdale explores a personal connection between travel writing and history, and Nicola Baldwin explains why playwrights should roll their…

Joanna Trollope
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Joanna Trollope, part 2

Joanna Trollope speaks with Caroline Sanderson about lifelong readers, sibling value and gender issues in literature. RLF Trustee Joanna Trollope…

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

Tina Pepler

Tina Pepler speaks with Jane Draycott about fictionalising trauma, the limits of the internet and cross-cultural mentoring. Tina Pepler speaks…

Susan Fletcher
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Susan Fletcher

Susan Fletcher speaks with Caroline Sanderson about choosing her settings, writing outdoors and her love of nature. Susan Fletcher speaks…

Collected Podcast

Marcy Kahan & Zoë Marriott

Marcy Kahan is respectfully ambivalent about playwriting manuals, and Zoe Marriott finds the north star in her fantasy novels’ characters.…

Joanna Trollope
Collected Podcast

Joanna Trollope, part 1

Joanna Trollope speaks with Caroline Sanderson about psychology, Jane Austen and taking children seriously. RLF Trustee Joanna Trollope speaks with…

Courttia Newland
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Courttia Newland

Courttia Newland speaks with Catherine O’Flynn about taking inspiration from TV and music, diversity in publishing and his multi-genre career.…

Bird on cobbles
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Alyson Hallett & Donny O’Rourke

Alyson Hallett sees her words carved into stone, while Donny O’Rourke considers the stone of Glasgow’s classic tenements. Alyson Hallett…

Charles Jennings
Collected Podcast

Charles Jennings, part 2

Charles Jennings speaks with Catherine O’Flynn about regionalism, suburbs and different lives. Charles Jennings speaks with Catherine O’Flynn about regionalism,…

Ian Thomson
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Ian Thomson

Ian Thomson speaks with Gabriel Gbadamosi about selfishness, Englishness and discomfort in one’s skin. Ian Thomson speaks with Gabriel Gbadamosi…

Helena Drysdale
Collected Podcast

Helena Drysdale, part 2

Helena Drysdale speaks with James McConnachie about family archives, endangered languages and learning by asking. Helena Drysdale speaks with James…

A closed door
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Roopa Farooki & Trish Cooke

Roopa Farooki considers the struggle of diverse new writers, and Trish Cooke explores her sense of responsibility to diverse audiences…