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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 Podcast

Ron Butlin & Gerry Cambridge

Ron Butlin shares his experiences as the Edinburgh Makar, and Gerry Cambridge discusses his route into writing and the joys…

Collected Article

Pressure To Be Cheerful

Staging her memoir caused fresh pain Rahila Gupta until she came to a new understanding. We write to remember, and…

Jonathan Buckley
Collected Podcast

Jonathan Buckley

Jonathan Buckley speaks with James McConnachie about formally adventurous fiction and writing’s various challenges. Jonathan Buckley speaks with James McConnachie…

Morbid
Collected Article

Morbid, Hideous and Delicious

Kate Colquhoun ponders why we delight in the brutal wrapped in the familiar. Victorian writers of sensation novels knew that…

Companions Voice
Collected Podcast

Jane Draycott & Miranda France

Jane Draycott considers a writer’s inner travelling companions, and Miranda France explores the challenges of finding your writing voice. Jane…

Poppins umbrella
Collected Article

Chim Chim Cher-oo

Marcelle Bernstein discerns a dark fear of abandonment beneath the magical realism of Mary Poppins. Mary Poppins blew into town…

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

Robyn Bolam

Robyn Bolam discusses her multi-century poetry anthology Eliza’s Babes with Julia Copus. Robyn Bolam speaks with Julia Copus about Eliza’s…