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.
Poor, uneducated Mr Polly makes a constant fool of himself by trying to use words he can’t always quite remember…
Caroline Moorehead speaks with Carole Angier about her passion for research and for genre-busting non-fiction. Caroline Moorehead speaks with Carole…
You can never delete or reword what has been spoken, but you can do both of these glorious acts when…
Poet Duncan Forbes surveys the poetic marketplace. Poets seek readers, above all, but they wouldn’t mind a bit of money…
My imagination had been fired by my grandmother’s secret cache of Barbara Cartlands, that she kept in a cupboard beside…
Hugh Thomson speaks with George Miller about humour, erotic pottery and the advantages of vodka mules. Hugh Thomson speaks with…
Instead of trying to write I try not to write and let the urge to write build in me to…
At one of the very edges of human habitation, Kathleen Jones confronts the limits of what a writer can say.…
The blank page can be unnerving to a novelist preparing for the day’s long trek, but it’s a wasteland that…
The RLF goes looking for the splinter of ice in the heart of a writer. Is writing a ruthless business?…
Roy Bainton on his early occupations from sailor to sewage worker, and how he became a writer. Roy Bainton describes…
What a fantastic life it would be, I thought, sitting by a sunny window writing stories, only stopping for lunch…
