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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.

Nicholas Murray
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…

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

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.

Whale
Collected Article

Whalesong

Lucinda Hawksley’s quest to see every species of whale has an unexpected conclusion. Lucinda Hawksley is not the first writer…

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

Susan Barker – Why I Write

I wrote more to occupy my time and because writing was an activity suited to my hyperactive imagination and love…

rose
Collected Podcast

Poets Of The Ghazal

Mimi Khalvati, Debjani Chatterjee and Basir Sultan Kazmi explore the ghazal. Julia Copus is joined by poets Debjani Chatterjee, Basir…

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

Miranda Miller – How I Write

Writing fiction belongs more to the sleeping, than the waking world, so I try not to surrender myself to the…

Sea Anemone
Collected Article

A Carnivorous Hotel

Researching a novel about a grisly hotel led Michelle Lovric to a grislier reality. The murderous hotel that Michelle Lovric…

Caroline Moorehead
Collected Podcast

Caroline Moorehead, part 2

Caroline Moorehead speaks with Carole Angier about courage and the importance of silence. Caroline Moorehead speaks with Carole Angier about…

Collected Audio

Mary Colson – Why I Write

I write because I don’t do fashion, or fortune, or fakery. I write because I don’t serve or service, or…

Period living room
Collected Article

No Pastiche

Novelist James Wilson tries to conjure history by giving it voice. istorical novelists always risk accusations of pastiche, and never…