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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.

Raven and the First Men
Collected Article

At The Edge Of The World

At one of the very edges of human habitation, Kathleen Jones confronts the limits of what a writer can say.…

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

John Greening – How I Write

The blank page can be unnerving to a novelist preparing for the day’s long trek, but it’s a wasteland that…

The Splinter of Ice
Collected Podcast

The Splinter of Ice

The RLF goes looking for the splinter of ice in the heart of a writer. Is writing a ruthless business?…

Roy Bainton
Collected Video

Jack Of All Trades

Roy Bainton on his early occupations from sailor to sewage worker, and how he became a writer. Roy Bainton describes…

Collected Audio

Mark Illis – Why I Write

What a fantastic life it would be, I thought, sitting by a sunny window writing stories, only stopping for lunch…

Collected Article

The Stylophile

Poet Gerry Cambridge tells the story of his lifelong love of fountain pens. Poets love associations, says Gerry Cambridge. And…

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

Dipo Agboluaje – Why I Write

I verbalise their words aloud. I copy their physical mannerisms, and re-enact crucial scenes in the ‘You talking to me?’…

Jane Feaver
Collected Podcast

Jane Feaver

Jane Feaver speaks with Julia Copus about tragedy and darkness in her unconventional pastoral novel. Jane Feaver speaks with Julia…

Holbein Erasmus
Collected Article

Murthering Your Dowsabells

Tobias Jones wrote his latest novel using sixteenth-century English. The 1549 ‘Prayer Book Rebellion’ was a revolt against the imposition…

Collected Audio

Jane Robins – How I Write

I will edit and re-edit for a few hours and only then move on to the blank screen, the next…

Brian McAvera
Collected Podcast

Brian McAvera

Brian McAvera’s audio diary tours us through Bordeaux and the serendipity of field research. Brian McAvera takes us to Bordeaux,…