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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.

Pirates from a book
Collected Podcast

James McConnachie & Mark McCrum

James McConnachie challenges the idea of gendered books for children, and Mark McCrum introduces the strange world of the ghost…

Caitlin and Hunter Davies
Collected Podcast

Caitlin Davies & Hunter Davies

Caitlin Davies and her father Hunter Davies dissect their respective writing careers and the state of publishing. Caitlin Davies and…

Rukhsana Ahmad
Collected Podcast

Rukhsana Ahmad

Rukhsana Ahmad speaks with John Siddique about childhood in Pakistan, her core motivation and the trap of the ‘post-colonial’. Rukhsana…

Leigh Russell
Collected Podcast

Leigh Russell

Leigh Russell speaks with Robin Blake about starting late as a writer, why genre fiction is popular, and her own…

ghostly scene with moon
Collected Podcast

Donny O’Rourke & Julian Turner

Donny O’Rourke chases ghosts in the borders for Samhain, and Julian Turner considers the value of imagination and metaphor. Donny…

Susan Barker
Collected Podcast

Susan Barker

Susan Barker speaks with Cherise Saywell about international origins, her organic writing process and living in Japan and China. Susan…

Collected Podcast

Rick Stroud

Rick Stroud speaks with Robin Blake about film-making, his fascination with WW2 and the merits of simple writing. Rick Stroud…

Collected Podcast

Dipo Agboluaje & Penny Hancock

Dipo Agboluaje explores the effects of later boyhood in Nigeria, and Penny Hancock wonders whether she has a real job.…

Meagan Delahunt
Collected Podcast

Meaghan Delahunt

Meaghan Delahunt speaks with Cherise Saywell about revolutionary beginnings, her physical drafting process and Colonial perceptions. Meaghan Delahunt speaks with…

Mimi Khalvati
Collected Podcast

Mimi Khalvati

Mimi Khalvati speaks with John Greening about Persian origins, abstraction and constrained forms and co-founding the Poetry School. Mimi Khalvati…

Picnic basket
Collected Podcast

Jonathan Tulloch & Mary Colson

Jonathan Tulloch revisits the end of the world, and Mary Colson confronts some ominous quiet. Jonathan Tulloch takes us to…

Jane Shilling
Collected Podcast

Jane Shilling

Jane Shilling speaks with Robin Blake about fox-hunting, botox and moving into fiction. Jane Shilling speaks with Robin Blake about…