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.
William Palmer speaks with Carole Angier about his dark early novels. William Palmer speaks with Carole Angier about his beginnings…
The day you decided to nurse your thumping head with a hair, or a tuft, of the dog that bit…
Yorkshire hip-hop playwright Jonny Wright claims African-American culture as his own. The distinctive culture created by African-Americans in the shadow…
Ian Duhig considers the relationship between poetry and music, and Caroline Moorehead researches the French Resistance. Ian Duhig considers the…
From the outset Capote hooks us in with painstakingly precise detail that leaves no flake of old Kansas paint unnoticed.
Playwright Shaun McCarthy couldn’t get Don Carlo Gesualdo out of his head, so he put him on stage. The dark,…
Annette Kobak explores how lessons learned in painting can inspire and improve a writer. Annette Kobak considers the lessons that…
My story mind seems to work most naturally at novel scale, but the problem with novels is that scale. Writing…
Poet and novelist Tom Bryan ponders the writers who chose to disappear – and those who disappeared anyway. A walk…
Ron Butlin speaks with Kona Macphee about writing in Scots and English, his various careers, and the importance of music.…
The time comes when there’s an overwhelming need to set something down. to begin. I bring up the blank Word…
Annie Caulfield ventures to South Sudan to work on a radio soap. Tribal hostilities, polygamous jealousies and farming disasters are…
