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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.

Charles Jennings
Collected Podcast

Charles Jennings, part 1

Charles Jennings speaks with Catherine O’Flynn about magazine journalism and his haphazard early career. Charles Jennings speaks with Catherine O’Flynn…

Michael McMillan
Collected Podcast

Michael McMillan

Michael McMillan speaks with Gabriel Gbadamosi about childhood, his famous ‘front room’, music and the 70s. Michael McMillan speaks with…

Helena Drysdale
Collected Podcast

Helena Drysdale, part 1

Helena Drysdale speaks with James McConnachie about gender in travel writing, cancer and chasing the family past. Helena Drysdale speaks…

Jill Dawson
Collected Podcast

Jill Dawson

Jill Dawson explains how books and writing literally saved her life. Jill Dawson discusses the writers – mostly American, many…

Christie Dickason
Collected Podcast

Christie Dickason

Christie Dickason speaks with Gabriel Gbadamosi about truth, writing the 17th century and being a wild child. Christie Dickason speaks…

Stephen Romer
Collected Podcast

Stephen Romer

Stephen Romer wrestles with a workshop class at a time of personal struggle. Stephen Romer wrestles with a writing workshop,…

Trish Cooke
Collected Podcast

Trish Cooke, part 2

Trish Cooke speaks with Caroline Sanderson about her children’s writing, fairytales and the tragic roots of a dramatic work. Trish…

Bird in a gilded cage
Collected Podcast

Cynthia Rogerson & Anna Reynolds

Cynthia Rogerson considers the pleasures and pitfalls of the writing life, and Anna Reynolds disowns the ‘room of one’s own’.…

Julian Turner
Collected Podcast

Julian Turner

Julian Turner speaks with Amanda Whittington about metaphor, creativity and spirituality in literature and psychotherapy. Julian Turner speaks with Amanda…

Ian Thomson
Collected Podcast

Ian Thomson

Ian Thomson finds resonances between Dante’s Divine Comedy and the 12-step approach. Ian Thomson reads Dante’s Divine Comedy as a…

Trish Cooke
Collected Podcast

Trish Cooke, part 1

Trish Cooke speaks with Caroline Sanderson about Dominica and Yorkshire, her parents’ love of stories and her multimedia career. Trish…

Wendy Moore
Collected Podcast

Wendy Moore

Wendy Moore speaks with Catherine O’Flynn about the plight of journalism, compelling historical characters and the past’s parallels with today.…