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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.

Collected Audio

Jonny Wright – Why I Write

I write to tell the racists that I am black, and I am Britain. But I write because the world…

Collected Article

The Unwritten

Keith Tutt considers the great unfinished novels, and what he might yet leave behind. Writers have after-lives, lived out in…

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

Collected Audio

Anne Rouse – Why I Write

At thirty, I started to take writing seriously, and there in front of me I found the freedom again.

Collected Podcast

Nicholas Murray, part 2

Nicholas Murray speaks with George Miller about the war poets and his own career in poetry. Nicholas Murray talks with…

Collected Audio

Chris Westwood – Letter To My Younger Self

Keep all your rejection slips to mark your progress because one day, if you are lucky, like me, a sympathetic…

Image credit: Adapted from an image by Hilde Skjølberg

Collected Article

Palpable Designs

Nicholas Murray praises poetry that dares to get political. Stridency, polemicism, ineffectiveness — political poetry is often criticised. Nicholas Murray,…