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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.

Stairs
Collected Article

Tumbling Down Joyce’s Stairs

Roopa Farooki ‘leans in’ to Joyce’s masterpiece. The best way to challenge the anxiety of influence, for Roopa Farooki, was…

The Zoo Father
Collected Podcast

Pascale Petit

Pascale Petit explores her ‘Zoo Father’ with Julia Copus, and explains the connections between sculpture and poetry. Pascale Petit speaks…

A Message in Pencil
Collected Article

Iceboxes, Rollerballs and Tweets

John Greening explores unusual poetic materials. From William Carlos Williams’ prescription pads to George Szirtes’ Twitter-length stanzas, the medium has…

Max Adams
Collected Podcast

Max Adams

Max Adams speaks with Kona Macphee about walking, geography and the joys of generalism. Max Adams speaks with Kona Macphee…

Shackled to Sherlock
Collected Article

Shackled to Sherlock

Why did Conan Doyle murder Sherlock Holmes? David Stuart Davies investigates. David Stuart Davies, a world authority on Sherlock Holmes,…

Watches football
Collected Podcast

Eleanor Updale & Jonathan Tulloch

Eleanor Updale exposes the idiocy of broadcasting ‘nowspeak’, and Jonathan Tulloch celebrates his native Cumbrian dialect. Eleanor Updale wittily exposes…

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

Margaret Murphy – How I Write

I have composed a prologue sitting on a bench in Regent’s Park, jotted down the musings of a serial killer…

Freight Train
Collected Article

Parallel Tracks

Cynthia Rogerson rides freight trains in the American West. Wrapping herself around cables so as to sleep and brushing her…

Simon Rae
Collected Podcast

Simon Rae

Simon Rae speaks with Carole Angier about his diverse writing life in multiple genres. Simon Rae speaks with Carole Angier…