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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 woman by window thinking what to write with book birds flying past window.
Collected Article

Ten Perfect Places to Write

From libraries to castles and dining room tables to beds, our RLF Fellows invite us in to see the places…

Jamie Lee Searle
Collected Article

Translating and Writing

Jamie Lee Searle on how her career as a literary translator helped develop her writerly voice.

UEA | Chris Rose
Collected Podcast

Focusing on location

C.D. Rose, Elizabeth Cook and Mark Blayney explore the locations that have inspired and informed their writing.

Mark Blacklock by Joanne Crawford
Collected Podcast

Mark Blacklock

Caroline Sanderson interviews novelist and culture historian Dr Mark Blacklock.

A seat under a tree in sunny garden of Shandy Hall
Collected Article

No mood to write

Penny Boxall looks to Tristram Shandy author Laurence Sterne for inspiration on dealing with writer’s block.

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

Writing Techniques

Pamela Scobie, Sonia Faleiro, Mark Blacklock, David Mark and Thomas Bunstead share insights into the nuts and bolts of their…

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

My True Genre, part 3

John Keay, Horatio Clare, Ian Thomson, Charles Boyle, Laura Hird, Julian Turner, and Marina Benjamin on writing within ‘their’ genre.

Ghostwriting illustration by Paul Wearing
Collected Article

Confessions of a Ghostwriter

An RLF Fellow confesses – anonymously – what it is like to ghostwrite fiction, non-fiction and memoir for celebrities and…