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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.

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Collected Article

Caravan Days

Living in a caravan inspired a lifetime’s poetry for Gerry Cambridge. Gerry Cambridge recalls the beautiful austerity of his early…

Samuel Lock
Collected Video

My Writing Method

Playwright and novelist Samuel Lock (1926-2016) describes the mysterious inner genesis of all his work. Playwright and novelist Samuel Lock…

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Collected Podcast

Monique Roffey

Monique Roffey speaks with Carole Angier about the Caribbean roots of her life and early novels. Monique Roffey speaks with…

Collected Audio

Peter Forbes – Why I Write

We are living in the midst of the greatest scientific efflorescence in history, but most of it does not percolate…

Collected Article

The Waves Beneath

Playwright Clare Bayley finds a refugee story closer to home than she expected. When she began dramatising the stories of…

:yn Webster Wilde
Collected Podcast

Lyn Webster Wilde, part 2

Lyn Webster Wilde speaks with George Miller about Warrior Women and the myth of the Amazons. Lyn Webster Wilde speaks…

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

Rob Chapman – How I Write

I was always amazed at my mate Nigel who, after we’d spent an evening “relaxing” (in the accustomed undergraduate manner)…

Plimsoll line
Collected Article

Toeing Plimsoll’s Line

The writer Nicolette Jones finds herself in some surprising situations. Shanty-singing, bustle-wearing, wreath-laying, street parties, a campaign for lifeboats —…

Collected Podcast

Sarah Salway

Sarah Salway fends off Facebook and takes a busman’s holiday in ‘My Writing Week’. Sarah Salway shares what she calls…