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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 Article

Haunted by Gesualdo

Playwright Shaun McCarthy couldn’t get Don Carlo Gesualdo out of his head, so he put him on stage. The dark,…

Annette Kobak
Collected Podcast

Annette Kobak

Annette Kobak explores how lessons learned in painting can inspire and improve a writer. Annette Kobak considers the lessons that…

Collected Audio

Emma Darwin – How I Write

My story mind seems to work most naturally at novel scale, but the problem with novels is that scale. Writing…

Cat
Collected Article

A Cat Named Lonesome

Poet and novelist Tom Bryan ponders the writers who chose to disappear – and those who disappeared anyway. A walk…

Ron Butlin
Collected Podcast

Ron Butlin

Ron Butlin speaks with Kona Macphee about writing in Scots and English, his various careers, and the importance of music.…

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

Gavin Weightman – How I Write

The time comes when there’s an overwhelming need to set something down. to begin. I bring up the blank Word…

Girl with Sudanese flag
Collected Article

Sudanese Soap

Annie Caulfield ventures to South Sudan to work on a radio soap. Tribal hostilities, polygamous jealousies and farming disasters are…

Hilary Davies
Collected Podcast

Hilary Davies

Hilary Davies speaks with Julia Copus about the long poem, including her own ‘Imperium’. Hilary Davies speaks with Julia Copus…

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

Stephen Wakelam – How I Write

A biographer connects up the dots in the picture having found the dots of data. The only fiction is in…

Collected Article

The Dead House

An ambulant audio story by Peter Guttridge doesn’t so much respond to the spirit of a Scarborough cemetery as actually…

Kate Colquhoun
Collected Podcast

Kate Colquhoun, part 2

Kate Colquhoun speaks with Carole Angier about Joseph Paxton’s regrets, British cooking and the ideas that get away. Kate Colquhoun…