>

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.

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

Kathy Henderson & Harriet Castor

Kathy Henderson on lullaby collecting, and Harriet Castor on the ‘how you got published’ question. Kathy Henderson shares the pleasure…

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

Miranda Miller – Why I Write

This sense of inner worlds stretching ahead of me waiting to be explored is very comforting and exciting.

Chambers of Inspiration
Collected Article

Chambers Of Inspiration

Clare Colvin explores the hidden rooms that have inspired historical novels. The strange, diminutive ‘dwarf’s apartment’ in Mantua’s Ducal Palace…

Jill Dawson
Collected Podcast

Jill Dawson

Jill Dawson tells Frances Byrnes about writing’s ‘pleasure not punishment’, the importance of physicality and the inspiring richness of the…

Collected Article

Staples Not Allowed

Jane Corry reflects on her time ‘inside’, as writer-in-residence at a high-security prison. Prison changes you, it is said. It…

Alex Martin
Collected Podcast

Alex Martin, part 1

Alex Martin speaks with Carole Angier about his early journey from children’s writing through textbooks to delightful decadence. Alex Martin…

Highland Coo
Collected Article

No Heifer

Catherine Czerkawska investigates Robert Burns’s artistic debt to his often-overlooked wife, Jean Armour. Robert Burns is better known for his…

A Green Thought / Location
Collected Podcast

Jane Feaver & Katharine McMahon

Jane Feaver explores nostalgia and the pastoral, and Katharine McMahon goes on location for her historical fiction. Jane Feaver examines…

Slaves with sugar cane
Collected Article

The Silence Of The Slave

The voices of enslaved people are almost entirely lost to history. Bristolian novelist Sanjida O’Connell seeks to fill that terrible…