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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.

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Vanity Fair

Literary festivals are sprouting all over the UK, from Dartington to Althorp. But do visitors roll up for the literature,…

Illustration by Fran Pulido of woman by window thinking what to write with book birds flying past window.
Collected Audio

Roy Bainton – Why I Write

The loneliness has its roots in the fact that we carry our creative projects around in our craniums; the plot,…

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

James Wilson – Why I Write

Perhaps it’s because, like a lot of lonely children, I took refuge from the frustrations and terrors of real life…

Nickel Soda
Collected Podcast

Annie Caulfield & Ruth Thomas

Annie Caulfield explains the significance of ‘The Nickel’, and Ruth Thomas reflects on ‘Lime Soda Afternoons’. Annie Caulfield explains the…

Type R for Recovery
Collected Article

Type ‘R’ for Recovery

Writing for emotional survival is familiar; writing for physical survival less so. Yet the physical act of writing raised Sara…

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

Clare Pollard – Why I Write

On one hand I’m an adventurer, daring, thirsty for life, keen to try everything; on the other I’m a good…

Collected Audio

Tibor Fischer – Why I Write

They say that champions can always ‘raise their game’ to win. But I always managed to lower my game to…