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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.

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

Steve Voake – Why I Write

They were mainly about two detectives driving around in fast cars, eating pizza, interspersed with the occasional anguished poem about…

Collected Podcast

Menna Elfyn

Menna Elfyn’s audio diary explores language, politics and the richness of internationalism. Menna Elfyn finds time in her hectic schedule…

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

Lydia Syson – How I Write

In the winter I take to my bed, where I try to keep the faith that one page and another,…

Sparkler
Collected Article

Inspiration By Invitation

Poet Kona Macphee confronts the challenge of the Blank Page. Every writer knows the terror of Blank Page Syndrome, and…

Collected Audio

Alicia Foster – My Reading Habits

My reading now is instinctive rather than planned, possibly because I spent so many years forcing myself through piles of…

Collected Podcast

David Spencer

David Spencer speaks with Geoff Hattersley about playwriting in dialect, expat life and remaining true to his characters’ speech. David…

Clapper board
Collected Article

What Is Screenwriting?

Screenwriter Hugh Stoddart describes the ins and outs of producing original scripts and adaptations for the cinema. ‘A screenplay is…

Illustration by Fran Pulido of woman by window thinking what to write with book birds flying past window.
Collected Audio

Nick Holdstock – Why I Write

Part of the reluctance to answer stems from the feeling that we are not only having to explain why we…

Rahila Gupta
Collected Podcast

Rahila Gupta

Rahila Gupta speaks with George Miller about the intersection between politics and writing. Rahila Gupta tells George Miller: ‘I have…

SuAndi
Collected Video

Paid For Talking

SuAndi on her late start in writing, and being ‘paid for talking’. SuAndi describes her late start in writing, and…