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.
What can you see as you look at the universe of your play? What structures are there? What natural features?
Ray French speaks with Frances Byrnes about Welsh roots, Irish diasporas and writerly voice-finding. Ray French speaks with Frances Byrnes…
You’ll measure your growing fame in invites to do things for free; from publishers, organisers, students, and universities.
How Doug Johnstone’s love of islands inspired his writing. Ever since he first fell in love with all things insular,…
Jackie Wills speaks with Geoff Hattersley about artistic collaboration, self-taught poetry skills and freelance survival. Jackie Wills speaks with Geoff…
I don’t talk about a novel until I’m well into the first draft, and in fact have a private superstition…
Bring me your newborn idea and your raw curiosity, and I’ll give you the tools to transform it into fiction.
Road-menders, ice-cream vans, the pram in the hall… Andrew Sant considers familiar bugbears of the writing life, and how to…
Jonathan Tulloch’s gustatory reflection for summer takes in a panoply of cake, plus three RLF writers on why they write.…
Death, money, cooking, school assemblies, blog posts, twitter; I’d rather you went on enjoying the benign neglect which lets you…
I was a schoolgirl reading my mother’s Nova, excited by the second wave of feminism which looked to the past…
Roy Bainton discovers the hard way that you need hands. After an accident left him with a broken arm, Roy…
