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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.

Collected Podcast

Rob Chapman

Rob Chapman’s audio diary features TV vs. film, rock-and-roll poets and a weird abandoned novel. Rob Chapman’s working week touches…

Collected Audio

Amanda Swift – How I Write

Co-writing suits me because it breaks the isolation of writing alone, and it divides the writing process into manageable chunks.

Collected Article

Alone In Berlin

Christina Koning explores Berlin, with some favourite novels as her guide. On her first visit to Berlin, Christina Koning packed…

Mavis Cheek
Collected Podcast

Mavis Cheek, part 2

Mavis Cheek speaks with James McConnachie about changes in women’s lives and stands up for humour in writing. Mavis Cheek…

Collected Audio

John Siddique – Why I Write

A new feeling emerges, a desire to bear witness to the dignity and passion of our human lives. To write…

Collected Article

The Challenge Of Aboriginal Art

Antony Mason offers an appreciation of Australian Aboriginal Art. Antony Mason’s first encounter with the Aboriginal art of Australia was…

Collected Podcast

Kathleen Jones

Kathleen Jones speaks with Frances Byrnes about the mythic relationships between people and their landscapes that feature in her writing.…

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

Anna Reynolds – Why I Write

You see you just didn’t talk back then about your feelings; you swallowed them down and you got on with…

Dean Stalham
Collected Video

Bard Behind Bars

Dean Stalham on getting his playwriting start behind bars. Dean Stalham describes getting his writing start in prison (to the…

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

David Kennedy – How I Write

There are a number of ways a poem can happen. Sometimes there are those rare occasions when the poem arrives…