Ben Musgrave – How I Write
I like to honour a new project by going on an adventure into it’s world. I like a sudden immersion,…
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.
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Where Did The Good Graffiti Go?
Chris Simms mourns a vanishing form of public writing. ‘Sharp comments in everyday settings’ is how Chris Simms defines graffiti.…
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Podcast
Alex Martin, part 2
Alex Martin speaks with Carole Angier about commissions, identities and fresh adventures in crime fiction. Alex Martin speaks with Carole…
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Sheena Wilkinson – Why I Write
In Belfast I grew up not so much on the outside or the wrong side, as not having a side.…
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Article
Resuscitating The Zombies
Rupert Christiansen picks through literary classics that narrowly avoided being consigned to the living death of non-publication. Every writer has…
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Podcast
Ian Duhig, part 2
Ian Duhig talks with Julia Copus about poetic form, artistic collaboration and speaking for the oppressed. Ian Duhig speaks with…
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Mark McCrum – Letter To My Younger Self
Get a job they said. They were right. I ignored this and survived on everything from the dole to dressing…
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Article
Red Tallinn
Ian Thomson sails to Estonia in search of his mother’s Soviet childhood. Ian Thomson’s mother and her best friend both…
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Podcast
Kathy Henderson & Harriet Castor
Kathy Henderson on lullaby collecting, and Harriet Castor on the ‘how you got published’ question. Kathy Henderson shares the pleasure…
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Miranda Miller – Why I Write
This sense of inner worlds stretching ahead of me waiting to be explored is very comforting and exciting.
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Chambers Of Inspiration
Clare Colvin explores the hidden rooms that have inspired historical novels. The strange, diminutive ‘dwarf’s apartment’ in Mantua’s Ducal Palace…
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Podcast
Jill Dawson
Jill Dawson tells Frances Byrnes about writing’s ‘pleasure not punishment’, the importance of physicality and the inspiring richness of the…