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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.

New RLF Fellows clap at the 2024 Induction event. Photo by Adam Laycock.
RLF News Article

Welcome to our new RLF Fellows

At the end of last month, we welcomed 44 new Fellows to the RLF with our yearly induction event at…

An image of the 'end' button on a keyboard. Photo by csy302, CanvaPro.
Collected Article

The Finishing Line

So – what now? RLF Fellow Mary Colson on what it’s like to actually finish a book.

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RLF News Article

RLF Fellows’ News: July 2024

RLF Fellows news, including books and articles publishing in July 2024, as well as events, appearances and broadcasts.

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RLF News Article

My Writing Life: Monique Roffey

Monique Roffey, FRSL, is an award-winning Trinidadian-born British writer of novels. Here, she shares her writing routine.

Aesthetic Library By Charushi Chugh, Unsplash
Collected Podcast

My True Genre, part 1

In the first installment of our ‘My True Genre’ series, RLF Fellows discuss how writers discover which form of writing…

Desk. Photo credit: Peter H | Pixabay.
Collected Article

The gift of failure

It’s something of a cliché to say that we learn more from our failures than we do from our successes.…

Two images split by a black line. Author Wren James is pictured in front of a sea scape in the left image, and on the other side is an image of the front page of a script which reads 'Heartstopper, season 3. Episode 1 'Love' by Alice Oseman.'
RLF News Article

Why we need literary pride

This Pride Month, RLF Fellow and Heartstopper story consultant Wren James on the importance of queer representation in books.

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

Writing Technique, part 2

William Ryan shares insights into how he writes scenes, Lauren James talks about their writing method and Menna van Praag…

Unfinished apartment block in Spain. Photo: bridgendboy, Canva Pro.
Collected Article

Utopias

Catherine O’Flynn – once described as ‘The J. G. Ballard of Birmingham – on broken utopias and the realities behind…

Ivy Compton-Burnett Hulton Archive Getty Images. Picture shown alongside an image of the inside cover of Hilary Spurling's biography about Ivy Compton-Burnett.
Collected Article

Rediscovering Ivy Compton-Burnett

On the 140th anniversary of her birth, Stuart Jeffries revisits one of Britain’s finest but neglected novelists.