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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.

Train travel
Collected Article

Tracks

Katherine Stansfield considers how travelling by train can lead to inspiration for the writer. For Katherine Stansfield, travelling by train…

The Raptor - John Keay
Collected Video

The Raptor

John Keay’s talisman is changeable in more ways than one. Historian John Keay has a changeable talisman, which most recently…

Horatio Clare
Collected Podcast

Horatio Clare, part 1

Horatio Clare speaks with James McConnachie about sheep-farming, criminal records and waiting for the right time to write. Horatio Clare…

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

Tim Walker – Why I Write

I realised that – belatedly – I wanted more of a say. So that was the first reason I wanted…

Dublin
Collected Article

In The Footsteps Of James Joyce

Christina Koning finally gets to visit a city she’s come to know through the pages of a book. Visiting Dublin…

Clare Pollard
Collected Podcast

Clare Pollard

Clare Pollard talks with Julia Copus about motherhood, politics, and being labeled a literary ‘Bad Girl’. Clare Pollard talks with…

Young girl working in shop
Collected Article

Cafés, Chemists And Holiday Camps

Isabel Ashdown on the advantages for a writer of early experience of work.. The Saturday jobs of our youth played an important…

Collected Audio

Horatio Clare – Why I Write

Recording these things as I look at them and telling you about them as exactly as I can gives me…

Heather Dyer
Collected Podcast

Heather Dyer

Heather Dyer, in her writing week diary, lives the dream in a campervan — or does she? Heather Dyer is…