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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.

Amanda Whittington
Collected Podcast

Amanda Whittington & William Palmer part 2

Amanda Whittington shares her audio diary ‘My Writing Week’, and we conclude William Palmer’s interview with Carole Angier. Amanda Whittington…

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

Christina Koning – Why I Write

There is enormous pleasure to be had from playing around with language; I can honestly say I enjoy the editing…

watch and piano
Collected Article

The House Of Songs

Donny O’Rourke traces his poetry back to his father’s long musical silence. In Scotland the seannachie is a bard who…

William Palmer
Collected Podcast

William Palmer, part 1

William Palmer speaks with Carole Angier about his dark early novels. William Palmer speaks with Carole Angier about his beginnings…

hip hop and collard greens
Collected Article

Hip-hop And Collard Greens

Yorkshire hip-hop playwright Jonny Wright claims African-American culture as his own. The distinctive culture created by African-Americans in the shadow…

Music Resistance
Collected Podcast

Ian Duhig & Caroline Moorehead

Ian Duhig considers the relationship between poetry and music, and Caroline Moorehead researches the French Resistance. Ian Duhig considers the…

Collected Article

Haunted by Gesualdo

Playwright Shaun McCarthy couldn’t get Don Carlo Gesualdo out of his head, so he put him on stage. The dark,…

Annette Kobak
Collected Podcast

Annette Kobak

Annette Kobak explores how lessons learned in painting can inspire and improve a writer. Annette Kobak considers the lessons that…

Collected Audio

Emma Darwin – How I Write

My story mind seems to work most naturally at novel scale, but the problem with novels is that scale. Writing…

Cat
Collected Article

A Cat Named Lonesome

Poet and novelist Tom Bryan ponders the writers who chose to disappear – and those who disappeared anyway. A walk…