Collected
Audio
Rukhsana Ahmad – How I Write
Inspired or not, work had to be delivered. Caught in a game of double dare with deadlines I seldom blinked,…
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
Caitlin Davies plus Vox
In Caitlin Davies’ audio diary, she wonders how a writer ever finds time to write. Plus Vox highlights. Caitlin Davies…
Collected
Audio
Linda Buckley-Archer – Why I Write
Why didn’t I write? The truth is I had too high a regard for the profession of writer to try.
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Article
Not A Serious Writer
Novelist Michael Jecks investigates the historical realism of George MacDonald Fraser. Harry Flashman is a fictional character borrowed from a…
Bethan Roberts – Why I Write
If I could write books I could make up things like sex scenes which would be the most fun a…
Collected
Podcast
Marcelle Bernstein, part 1
Marcelle Bernstein speaks with Carol Angier about interviewing’s golden age and the secret lives of nuns. Marcelle Bernstein speaks with…
Collected
Audio
Sally Pomme Clayton – Life-changing Literature
She moves into a houseboat where she writes and writes until the boat rots. The diaries were a form of…
Collected
Video
The Camera
Max Adams gives us a look at his writer’s talisman — and it looks back. Max Adams gives us a…
Collected
Article
Tuned In, Torn Apart, Tub-thumped, Healed
Poetry not only changes the reader — it works on the writer too. John Greening asks how. Poets have always…
Collected
Audio
Wendy Moore – Letter To My Younger Self
You form a band with other girls and write song lyrics instead. You walk this flimsy tightrope; eager to do…
Collected
Podcast
Nicholas Murray, part 1
Nicholas Murray speaks with George Miller about literary biography, including his acclaimed life of Huxley. Nicholas Murray is the author…
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Brian McAvera – Why I Write
I lived in Andersonstown, Belfast, I was teaching there. And what I saw incensed me, so I wrote about that.