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.

Collected Podcast

Tania Hershman

Tania Hershman shares a writing week in which even a rotten cold can’t suppress her enthusiasm. Tania Hershman shares an…

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Christie Dickason – The Best Advice I Ever Received

Several points from theatre still hang over my computer. What makes them want to come back from the bar after…

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

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Doug Johnstone – Life-changing Literature

Ultimately, Tomine strikes me as that rarest of things, a genuinely truthful writer, and I can think of no higher…

Collected Article

Pseudonyms

John Pilkington considers the reason why authors like to hide their identities. Why do some writers choose to use a…

Collected Podcast

Tracey Herd

Tracey Herd speaks with Julia Copus about female iconography and popular culture in her poetry. Tracey Herd speaks with Julia…

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Philippa Stockley – My Reading Habits

I’d have a go at anything, because my reading habit isn’t so much about the book itself as where I…

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

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Louise Foxcroft – The Best Advice I Ever Received

I don’t want someone’s opinion, I want wisdom. Not the same thing at all. Opinion is everywhere.

Collected Article

Tarot As A Tool For Writing

Diane Samuels discovers in the Tarot a ‘universal language for the imagination’. Generally associated with fortune-telling rather than story-telling, the…