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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.

Ayn rand
Collected Article

Why Bother With Ayn Rand?

Anita Mason traces the present-day political influence of the postwar novelist Ayn Rand. Few people in Europe even know how…

Diane Samuels
Collected Podcast

Diane Samuels

Diane Samuels shares an audio diary with an emphasis on the theatrical. Diane Samuels shares her writing week with us,…

Goose
Collected Article

Taking Orders From Monica

Bethan Roberts had to dramatise the life of a Welsh goose-breeding artist from glimpses captured in her journals. The artist…

Caroline Moorehead
Collected Podcast

Caroline Moorehead, part 1

Caroline Moorehead speaks with Carole Angier about her passion for research and for genre-busting non-fiction. Caroline Moorehead speaks with Carole…

Road sign
Collected Article

No Poetry

Poet Duncan Forbes surveys the poetic marketplace. Poets seek readers, above all, but they wouldn’t mind a bit of money…

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

Penny Black – Why I Write

My imagination had been fired by my grandmother’s secret cache of Barbara Cartlands, that she kept in a cupboard beside…

Hugh Thomson
Collected Podcast

Hugh Thomson, part 2

Hugh Thomson speaks with George Miller about humour, erotic pottery and the advantages of vodka mules. Hugh Thomson speaks with…