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.
Jonathan Tulloch on whether poetic license should be allowed in nature writing. As a novelist who has also written non-fiction…
I identified with these hobos. I lived in digs with my parents in one room. They were in a small…
John O’Donoghue on mental illness, and revisiting Victorian asylums in fiction. John O’Donoghue explains the origins of his memoir ‘Sectioned’,…
In the first of our new series ‘Poetry Break’, Julia Copus and Martina Evans explore two favourite classic poems. Martina…
That first phrase or line is like a magnet drawing other words to it and they begin to gather, sometimes…
Charles Jennings describes how he gets down to writing. Every writer has experienced the horror of the blank page. But…
University life will be blighted somewhat by a feeling that you can more or less cruise through the degree which…
Todd McEwen speaks with Frances Byrnes about growing up in California, and how this resulted in both abundance and healthy…
There are enough stories of great writers who are impossible to live with to suggest that having writing talent, and…
Ann Morgan considers the effect of chronic illness on her writing life. Having grown up with a chronic illness, Ann…
I only turn to the computer once the itch to get writing is very strong, and I worry that they…
Alyson Hallett shares a writing week which, for a delicious change, is actually dedicated to writing. Alyson Hallett luxuriates in…
