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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.

Flowerpot on a wall
Collected Podcast

Poetry Break with Joanne Limburg

Poetry Break: Joanne Limburg and Julia Copus on poems by Matilde Blind. Joanne Limburg and our host Julia Copus discuss…

Doug Johnstone
Collected Podcast

Doug Johnstone

Doug Johnstone speaks with Cherise Saywell about circuitous careers, conflicted masculinity and Tartan Noir Doug Johnstone speaks with Cherise Saywell…

Old fashioned camera
Collected Podcast

Elanor Dymott & Alex Martin

Elanor Dymott explains how research nearly derailed her career, and Alex Martin considers action vs. contemplation. Elanor Dymott explains how…

Lucy Moore
Collected Podcast

Lucy Moore, part 2

Lucy Moore speaks with James McConnachie about female French revolutionaries and rebellious maharanis. Lucy Moore speaks with James McConnachie about…

Maura Dooley
Collected Podcast

Maura Dooley

Maura Dooley speaks with Jane Draycott about Irish heritage, Iranian translation and a Jane Austen residency. Maura Dooley, former RLF…

Harvest time
Collected Podcast

Donny O’Rourke & Tiffany Murray

Donny O’Rourke visits festive Edinburgh for the Lughnasadh harvest, and Tiffany Murray breaks her block in Iceland. Donny O’Rourke takes…

Brian Keaney
Collected Podcast

Brian Keaney

Brian Keaney speaks with Robin Blake about being London Irish, leaving his teaching career and solving a mystery. Brian Keaney…

Lucy Moore
Collected Podcast

Lucy Moore, part 1

Lucy Moore speaks with James McConnachie about recovering a life from a receipt book, chemistry’s domestic roots and Civil War…

A fairytale
Collected Podcast

Ann Morgan & Nicholas Murray

Ann Morgan explodes some publishing myths, and Nicholas Murray considers a curious reluctance. Ann Morgan retells the grand old myth…

Robyn Marsack
Collected Podcast

Robyn Marsack, part 2

Robyn Marsack speaks with Cherise Saywell about WW1 and Edmund Blunden, her grandfather’s war writing, and a literary surprise. Robyn…

Swans on the Serpentine
Collected Podcast

Donny O’Rourke & Hugh Thomson

Donny O’Rourke summers in Orkney for Litha, and Hugh Thomson enjoys some seasonal outdoor swimming. Donny O’Rourke takes in the…