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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.

Collected Podcast

Elizabeth Speller, part 2

Elizabeth Speller speaks with George Miller about her transition from non-fiction to historical fiction. Elizabeth Speller speaks with George Miller…

Millie Murray
Collected Video

Writing My Books

Millie Murray describes the kinds of books she writes, and her writing process. Millie Murray describes the kinds of books…

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

Linda Buckley-Archer – How I Write

The birth of stories, as opposed to their shaping and structuring, is both intriguing and mysterious. The strongest ideas so…

dystopia
Collected Article

The End Of Dystopia

Emily Diamand calls for a new kind of utopian fiction, to help stave off environmental disaster. New thinking on public…

Emma Darwin
Collected Podcast

Emma Darwin & Vox

Emma Darwin’s audio diary takes us to the deepest countryside to get on with things, plus recent highlights from Vox.…

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

Donny O’Rourke – Why I Write

Family hyperbole suggests I used to speak only in rhyme, for days at a time. To precocity, sadly, attention gets…

Creative compost
Collected Article

Creative Compost

Linda Buckley-Archer argues that writers should experiment with form and genre, not settle into cosy monogamy. Adaptations are everywhere. Less…

Jonathan Tulloch
Collected Podcast

Jonathan Tulloch

Jonathan Tulloch speaks with Frances Byrnes about faith and the love of nature in his writing life. Jonathan Tulloch speaks…

Boer civilians in concentration camp
Collected Article

Talking To The Dead

Sarah LeFanu searches for the ghosts of Doyle and Kipling in Bloemfontein. Travelling for biographical research can lead to all…

Collected Podcast

My True Genre

The RLF takes an inside look at the shoals of literary genre, and how writers navigate them. The RLF takes…

Collected Audio

John Greening – Why I Write

If you have to ask yourself why you write, then you probably shouldn’t be doing it. In my experience the…