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?…
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.
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…
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…
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?’…
Collected
Podcast
Jane Feaver
Jane Feaver speaks with Julia Copus about tragedy and darkness in her unconventional pastoral novel. Jane Feaver speaks with Julia…
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Audio
Candida Crewe – Letter To My Younger Self
There’s much to be embarrassed about in-between the covers of my six novels, but thank god bad sex ain’t one…
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…
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…
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,…
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Audio
Brian Clegg – Why I Write
For every J.K. Rowling there are thousands of writers for whom the minimum wage would be serious improvement on reality.
Collected
Article
In Bedlam
Visiting the Bethlem Royal Hospital archives allowed Miranda Miller to enter into the world of a nineteenth-century asylum. The artist…