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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.

Kevin Clarke
Collected Podcast

Kevin Clarke

Kevin Clarke speaks with Frances Byrnes about dramatic apprenticeships, adult education and finding his subjects. Kevin Clarke speaks with Frances…

Jonathan Tulloch
Collected Podcast

Jonathan Tulloch & Vox

Jonathan Tulloch satirically revisits a child’s Christmas in Cumbria, and three RLF writers share the best advice they ever received.…

Memoir
Collected Podcast

Marina Benjamin & Alyson Hallett

Marina Benjamin examines the changing role of the personal voice in contemporary memoir, and Alyson Hallett takes us to Charles…

Cynthia Rogerson
Collected Podcast

Cynthia Rogerson

Cynthia Rogerson speaks with James McConnachie about ensuring realism, disliking positive discrimination and enduring chick-lit covers. Cynthia Rogerson speaks with…

Crafty Writing / Serious Nonsense
Collected Podcast

Horatio Clare & Clare Pollard

Horatio Clare ponders the necessary pragmatism of the practising writer, and Clare Pollard celebrates the long tradition of nonsense verse.…

Brian McCabe
Collected Podcast

Brian McCabe

Brian McCabe speaks with Geoff Hattersley about artistic mathematicians, serious humour and writing the worldview of a child. Brian McCabe…

John Keay
Collected Podcast

John Keay, part 2

John Keay speaks with James McConnachie about relics of Empire, roving Scots and hectic book tours. John Keay speaks with…

Collected Podcast

Jonny Wright & Kerry Young

Jonny Wright considers the sobering contemporary parallels of a 1959 play, and Kerry Young explores her literary origins. Jonny Wright…

Michael Blackburn
Collected Podcast

Michael Blackburn

Michael Blackburn speaks with Geoff Hattersley about poetry, The Establishment and being a ‘Grand-père Terrible’. Michael Blackburn speaks with Geoff…

John Keay
Collected Podcast

John Keay, part 1

John Keay speaks with James McConnachie about hands-on historical research, and his best writing advice. John Keay speaks with James…

Stop
Collected Podcast

Charles Boyle & Kevin Clarke

Charles Boyle considers why writers sometimes stop writing, and Kevin Clarke details a secret crime of the screen-writing trade. Charles…

Tania Hershman
Collected Podcast

Tania Hershman

Tania Hershman shares a writing week in which even a rotten cold can’t suppress her enthusiasm. Tania Hershman shares an…