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.
Chris Westwood shares retro tech, creative routines and gothic writing beginnings. Chris Westwood shows off some retro tech, and shares…
Marcelle Bernstein speaks with Carole Angier about instinctive writing, research and her novels. Marcelle Bernstein speaks with Carole Angier about…
If my family is at home I escape to the British Library; there’s no point building up a head of…
Poet Pascale Petit charts her obsession with a black jaguar in a Paris zoo. For four years, the poet Pascale…
While I was cocooned in white suburbia, Ruth First, like me the daughter of East European Jewish immigrants, dared to…
Harriet Castor speaks with Julia Copus about engaging young readers and inhabiting Henry VIII. Harriet Castor speaks with Julia Copus…
I write to tell the racists that I am black, and I am Britain. But I write because the world…
Keith Tutt considers the great unfinished novels, and what he might yet leave behind. Writers have after-lives, lived out in…
At thirty, I started to take writing seriously, and there in front of me I found the freedom again.
Nicholas Murray speaks with George Miller about the war poets and his own career in poetry. Nicholas Murray talks with…
Keep all your rejection slips to mark your progress because one day, if you are lucky, like me, a sympathetic…
Nicholas Murray praises poetry that dares to get political. Stridency, polemicism, ineffectiveness — political poetry is often criticised. Nicholas Murray,…
