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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.

Archery
Collected Article

Shooting The Past

Morgen Witzel on getting to grips with fourteenth-century warfare. As a writer of historical fiction, Morgen Witzel wasn’t content to…

Collected Audio

Robyn Marsack – Why I Write

Without the invitation I would never have brought these disparate experiences together, never compared the perspectives on writing and gardens…

Tobias Jones
Collected Podcast

Tobias Jones, part 1

Tobias Jones speaks with James McConnachie about investigating corruption in Italy during the Berlusconi era. Tobias Jones speaks with James…

A writer's worlds
Collected Article

A Writer’s Worlds

Deborah Chancellor considers the ways that a writer’s shifting identities can influence her work. Throughout her writing life, Deborah Chancellor…

Diana Evans
Collected Podcast

Diana Evans

Diana Evans speaks with Frances Byrnes about her original career as a dancer, stories vs. real life, and the need…

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

Harry Ritchie – How I Write

I think I would rather read the Shades of Grey trilogy that re-read one of my novels. Wait a minute,…

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

Regi Claire – Why I Write

Perhaps you were never young? Perhaps you came into existence fully fledged as a know all? But perhaps you were…

Collected Article

Cooking The Books

Donny O’Rourke explores some culinary memories. Childhood memories of watching his mother cook inspired Donny O’Rourke’s lifelong interest in cooking…

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

Tania Hershman – Why I Write

For the first forty-four years of my life I’ve always felt in some way or other, myself, wrong. For the…

Translator's art
Collected Podcast

The Translator’s Subtle Art

Sarah Ardizzone and Euan Cameron speak with Nick Caistor about the joys, challenges and constraints of translation. Sarah Ardizzone and…