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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.

Helena Attlee
Collected Podcast

Helena Attlee, part 1

Helena Attlee speaks with George Miller about garden writing and Italian passions. Helena Attlee tells George Miller about her unconventional…

Collected Article

A Piece Of The Continent

Dramatist Tina Pepler asks by what right she told stories from Syria. As a dramatist, Tina Pepler might be expected…

Writing a journal
Collected Podcast

William Palmer & John Siddique

William Palmer describes the ingredients of successful fiction, and John Siddique extols the benefits of journal-keeping. William Palmer explains the…

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

Lydia Syson – Why I Write

I like writing for young people because the books you read when you’re young, the ones you really care about,…

Bloomsbury Library
Collected Article

Library Tickets

Catherine O’Flynn conjures the library that made her a writer. Novelist Catherine O’Flynn recalls the smell of ‘old books, damp…

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

Menna Elfyn – Why I Write

As a writer I’m always seeking to break out of solitary confinement by writing freely in the belief of the…

Chris Westwood and his typewriter
Collected Video

On (Type-)Writing

Chris Westwood shares retro tech, creative routines and gothic writing beginnings. Chris Westwood shows off some retro tech, and shares…

Marcelle Bernstein
Collected Podcast

Marcelle Bernstein, part 2

Marcelle Bernstein speaks with Carole Angier about instinctive writing, research and her novels. Marcelle Bernstein speaks with Carole Angier about…

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

Mark McCrum – How I Write

If my family is at home I escape to the British Library; there’s no point building up a head of…

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

Contact

Poet Pascale Petit charts her obsession with a black jaguar in a Paris zoo. For four years, the poet Pascale…