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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.

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

Collected Audio

Paul Sayer – Why I Write

In those days only one in a thousand aspiring authors ever actually made it into print, and I felt I…

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Collected Audio

Sally Pomme Clayton – Why I Write

To meet Venus; to disobey; to step inside the doll’s house; to row across the river Styx; to find a…