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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.

Office buildings
Collected Podcast

Judy Brown & Martina Evans

Judy Brown explores the impact of two decades of legal practice on her poetry career, and Martina Evans considers literary…

Airport suitcase
Collected Article

Shapeshifting

Cherise Saywell describes how she has shifted between identities as a writer. Arriving in Britain from her native Australia Cherise…

Collected Audio

Ron Butlin – Writers Who Inspire Me

When advances dwindle and rejections become legion – each more hurtful than the last – I remember McCullers, Proust, Balzac…

Mary Colson
Collected Podcast

Mary Colson

Mary Colson speaks with John Siddique about children’s non-fiction, writing scripts and teaching. Mary Colson speaks with John Siddique about…

Collected Article

Memory and Fiction

Katharine McMahon on how writing about the past can offer insights into contemporary reality. As a writer of novels set…

Donny O'Rourke
Collected Podcast

Donny O’Rourke, part 2

Donny O’Rourke speaks with Geoff Hattersley about artistic self-belief, improvisatory poetry and midlife melancholy. Donny O’Rourke speaks with Geoff Hattersley…

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

Diana Evans – How I Write

It does not want to be captured. It does not want to be rectangular. It wants to live its life…

Flow vs feed
Collected Article

Flow Versus Feed

Kona Macphee explains why she’s kicked the social media habit. Kona Macphee considers two contrasting states of mind—in one of…