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.
Ian Duhig talks with Julia Copus about poetic form, artistic collaboration and speaking for the oppressed. Ian Duhig speaks with…
Get a job they said. They were right. I ignored this and survived on everything from the dole to dressing…
Ian Thomson sails to Estonia in search of his mother’s Soviet childhood. Ian Thomson’s mother and her best friend both…
Kathy Henderson on lullaby collecting, and Harriet Castor on the ‘how you got published’ question. Kathy Henderson shares the pleasure…
This sense of inner worlds stretching ahead of me waiting to be explored is very comforting and exciting.
Clare Colvin explores the hidden rooms that have inspired historical novels. The strange, diminutive ‘dwarf’s apartment’ in Mantua’s Ducal Palace…
Jill Dawson tells Frances Byrnes about writing’s ‘pleasure not punishment’, the importance of physicality and the inspiring richness of the…
I was a man with two brains, two separate personalities that were more often at odds with each other than…
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 speaks with Carole Angier about his early journey from children’s writing through textbooks to delightful decadence. Alex Martin…
Perhaps a more thoughtful answer is that I write from a sense of horror, so not from a love of…
Catherine Czerkawska investigates Robert Burns’s artistic debt to his often-overlooked wife, Jean Armour. Robert Burns is better known for his…
