Frances Byrnes – Life-changing Literature
Everyone is yearning. Come on! We can tell which Dads come to fetch us from school by the sound of…
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.
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The Authentic Hit
Deborah Chancellor says immersing yourself in another world is all the inspiration a writer needs. A serendipitous find can bring…
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Podcast
Michael Bywater, part 1
Michael Bywater talks to George Miller about working for Punch and his first book, “Lost Worlds”. Michael Bywater talks to…
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Paul Mills – How I Write
For me a thought is just as important as voice, style, idiom or sensuous immediacy. It’s the development of thought…
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Pushy Publishing
Katharine Grant ponders summer as the season of books. Do reader’s care about seasonal lists? Heavy-duty books for Autumn and…
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Podcast
Tony Gould
Tony Gould discusses his long career and eclectic non-fiction with Carole Angier. Tony Gould speaks with Carole Angier about his…
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Shelley Weiner – Letter To My Younger Self
Your writing even then is tinged with the dark ironies of a political system that employs grim euphemisms like ‘separate…
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The Heroine’s Journey
Nicola Baldwin considers how a woman’s compromises make the world a bigger place. Hollywood’s recipe of the hero’s journey is…
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Podcast
Pascale Petit & Julia Copus
Pascale Petit explores art as catharsis, and Julia Copus considers the impact of illness on creativity. Pascale Petit explores the…
Helen Farrall – Why I Write
I grew up in a Northern working class household that revered the soaps of the time: Coronation Street, Emmerdale Farm…
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Charterhouse to Charnel House
Ian Thomson explores the psycho-geography of Thomas Lovell Beddoes’ London. In 1817 Thomas Lovell Beddoes, later poet, physician and depressive,…
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Jane Draycott
Jane Draycott speaks with Julia Copus about translating the mediaeval poem “Pearl” Jane Draycott speaks with Julia Copus about her…