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

Christie Dickason – Why I Write

As a writer I play as seriously as a child, and live more than once. Writing also lets me play…

Collected Article

Winter Guests

Brambling, redwing, whooper swan: Jonathan Tulloch describes encounters with winter-visiting birds. Bird-lovers note the arrivals of the cuckoo and swallow,…

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

Collected Audio

John Greening – Life-changing Literature

Although the 8mm silent version of Milton’s epic never made it to a sheet of painted hardboard near you, I…

Collected Podcast

Christopher Wakling

Christopher Wakling speaks with George Miller about leaving the law for a new career as a novelist. Christopher Wakling talks…

Collected Audio

Alicia Foster – Letter To My Younger Self

You have tried to write poems. You destroyed them all but I remember what you wrote, and you were right…

Collected Article

Stealing Characters

John Pilkington investigates the writerly practice of reimagining and reworking characters from other authors’ stories. Since Shakespeare delighted Elizabeth I…