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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.

Sea Anemone
Collected Article

A Carnivorous Hotel

Researching a novel about a grisly hotel led Michelle Lovric to a grislier reality. The murderous hotel that Michelle Lovric…

Caroline Moorehead
Collected Podcast

Caroline Moorehead, part 2

Caroline Moorehead speaks with Carole Angier about courage and the importance of silence. Caroline Moorehead speaks with Carole Angier about…

Collected Audio

Mary Colson – Why I Write

I write because I don’t do fashion, or fortune, or fakery. I write because I don’t serve or service, or…

Period living room
Collected Article

No Pastiche

Novelist James Wilson tries to conjure history by giving it voice. istorical novelists always risk accusations of pastiche, and never…

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

Pippa Little – Why I Write

Though I never told him so, I write because of my father; unusually for that time he was the parent…

Collected Podcast

James McConnachie & Sanjida O’Connell

James McConnachie just dares us to snigger, and Sanjida O’Connell explains that writers can’t help it. James McConnachie just dares…

Going Under
Collected Article

Going Under

Wendy Moore subjects herself to hypnosis — all for the sake of research. Her fear of hypnosis did not stop…

Collected Audio

Fiona Shaw – How I Write

Perhaps the slowness and painfulness of my writing process is also part and parcel of what I do best when…

Collected Podcast

Katharine McMahon

Katharine McMahon speaks with Julia Copus about early women lawyers and her novel The Crimson Rooms. Katharine McMahon speaks with…

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

Tobias Jones – Why I Write

In a strange way writing is a communal activity, getting you out into the world to see it anew, to…