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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.

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Collected Podcast

The experience of being published

Mary-Jane Riley shares her experience of getting published, Beth Miller remembers publication day, Alys Fowler reveals how she celebrates a…

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RLF News Article

How biscuits saved my career

“I thought to myself, don’t people learn better when they’re having fun?” Crime writer Chris Simms on being a Consultant…

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RLF News Article

What We Leave We Carry

WritersMosaic, a division of the Royal Literary Fund, is launching a new podcast series, What We Leave We Carry, to…

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RLF News Article

Welcome to our new RLF Fellows

At the end of last month, we welcomed 44 new Fellows to the RLF with our yearly induction event at…

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Collected Article

The Finishing Line

So – what now? RLF Fellow Mary Colson on what it’s like to actually finish a book.

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RLF News Article

RLF Fellows’ News: July 2024

RLF Fellows news, including books and articles publishing in July 2024, as well as events, appearances and broadcasts.

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RLF News Article

My Writing Life: Monique Roffey

Monique Roffey, FRSL, is an award-winning Trinidadian-born British writer of novels. Here, she shares her writing routine.

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Collected Podcast

My True Genre, part 1

In the first installment of our ‘My True Genre’ series, RLF Fellows discuss how writers discover which form of writing…

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Collected Article

The gift of failure

It’s something of a cliché to say that we learn more from our failures than we do from our successes.…