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.
Jackie Wills speaks with Geoff Hattersley about artistic collaboration, self-taught poetry skills and freelance survival. Jackie Wills speaks with Geoff…
I don’t talk about a novel until I’m well into the first draft, and in fact have a private superstition…
Bring me your newborn idea and your raw curiosity, and I’ll give you the tools to transform it into fiction.
Road-menders, ice-cream vans, the pram in the hall… Andrew Sant considers familiar bugbears of the writing life, and how to…
Jonathan Tulloch’s gustatory reflection for summer takes in a panoply of cake, plus three RLF writers on why they write.…
Death, money, cooking, school assemblies, blog posts, twitter; I’d rather you went on enjoying the benign neglect which lets you…
I was a schoolgirl reading my mother’s Nova, excited by the second wave of feminism which looked to the past…
Roy Bainton discovers the hard way that you need hands. After an accident left him with a broken arm, Roy…
He is too clever, really, to be an effective novelist. Essays are what he is good at; you can’t be…
Ian McMillan entertains Geoff Hattersley with mushy peas, jazz, Telephone Voices and the vexed question of being ‘Yorkshire enough’. Ian…
When things are going badly; don’t quit, rewrite. Always carry a notebook. Above all, be persistent, if it’s going to…
On a visit to a Hebridean island, Linda Cracknell conducted experiments, using pebbles and ink, on the passage of time…
