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.
Annette Kobak explores how lessons learned in painting can inspire and improve a writer. Annette Kobak considers the lessons that…
My story mind seems to work most naturally at novel scale, but the problem with novels is that scale. Writing…
Poet and novelist Tom Bryan ponders the writers who chose to disappear – and those who disappeared anyway. A walk…
Ron Butlin speaks with Kona Macphee about writing in Scots and English, his various careers, and the importance of music.…
The time comes when there’s an overwhelming need to set something down. to begin. I bring up the blank Word…
Annie Caulfield ventures to South Sudan to work on a radio soap. Tribal hostilities, polygamous jealousies and farming disasters are…
Hilary Davies speaks with Julia Copus about the long poem, including her own ‘Imperium’. Hilary Davies speaks with Julia Copus…
A biographer connects up the dots in the picture having found the dots of data. The only fiction is in…
An ambulant audio story by Peter Guttridge doesn’t so much respond to the spirit of a Scarborough cemetery as actually…
Kate Colquhoun speaks with Carole Angier about Joseph Paxton’s regrets, British cooking and the ideas that get away. Kate Colquhoun…
Kevin Cadwallender describes mortifying poetic beginnings and how he wrote a pamphlet in a weekend, and shares a bear. Kevin…
On the opening night we had an audience of a thousand teenage girls screaming their heads off in derision at…
