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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.

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

Collected Audio

Neil Rollinson – Why I Write

I’d rather be thought of as a dissident than a company man; poetry should never have an office in City…

Collected Podcast

Michael Blackburn

Michael Blackburn speaks with Geoff Hattersley about poetry, The Establishment and being a ‘Grand-père Terrible’. Michael Blackburn speaks with Geoff…

Collected Video

The Letter

Cynthia Rogerson’s talisman is a piece of writing – a letter from a famous novelist. Cynthia Rogerson explains how she…

Collected Audio

Cherry Smyth – Letter To My Younger Self

Ignore those who tell you that your poetry is too personal, too intimate, or lyrical. Remember, these are the very…

Collected Article

Hummingbirds And Demonstrations

Ruth Thomas recalls interesting times in Argentina during the nineteen-nineties. Re-reading the diaries she wrote during the early nineteen-nineties, when…

Collected Podcast

John Keay, part 1

John Keay speaks with James McConnachie about hands-on historical research, and his best writing advice. John Keay speaks with James…

Collected Audio

Wendy Moore – Writers Who Inspire Me

For her ability to seize precisely the right historical detail to fix a story in time and place, Bainbridge is…

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

Collected Audio

Deborah Gearing – The Best Advice I Ever Received

Just write the next line. Someone says something; there’s always a reply. Now I could begin.

Collected Article

Throwing Things Away

Letters, photographs, newspaper cuttings… writers have always found inspiration in ephemera. Some have carried hoarding to excess, as Nicolette Jones…