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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.

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Katharine Quarmby – The Best Advice I Ever Received

Once you have a draft you have something to work with, and in many ways, that’s where the magic begins.

Collected Podcast

Jonny Wright & Kerry Young

Jonny Wright considers the sobering contemporary parallels of a 1959 play, and Kerry Young explores her literary origins. Jonny Wright…

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Robin Blake – Life-changing Literature

Montaigne was dead set against authoritarians, system-makers and pedants. He celebrated diversity, personal liberty and tolerance.

Collected Article

The Mystery Of Princess Louise

Lucinda Hawksley describes her quest to uncover the truth about a ‘much-maligned’ member of the Royal Family. When Lucinda Hawksley…

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

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Neil Rollinson – Why I Write

I’d rather be thought of as a dissident than a company man; poetry should never have an office in City…

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Michael Blackburn

Michael Blackburn speaks with Geoff Hattersley about poetry, The Establishment and being a ‘Grand-père Terrible’. Michael Blackburn speaks with Geoff…

Collected Video

The Letter

Cynthia Rogerson’s talisman is a piece of writing – a letter from a famous novelist. Cynthia Rogerson explains how she…

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Cherry Smyth – Letter To My Younger Self

Ignore those who tell you that your poetry is too personal, too intimate, or lyrical. Remember, these are the very…

Collected Article

Hummingbirds And Demonstrations

Ruth Thomas recalls interesting times in Argentina during the nineteen-nineties. Re-reading the diaries she wrote during the early nineteen-nineties, when…