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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.

To the lighthouse
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Haunted By Virginia Woolf

Clare Morgan shares how Virginia Woolf’s work helped her find her literary voice and continues to inspire her writing. Clare…

Satisfying garden
Collected Article

Textual Satisfaction

Adriana Hunter on the artistic rewards of literary translation. Adriana Hunter explores the art of literary translation and considers why…

Walking sticks
Collected Article

The Third Foot

Lawrence Sail explores how some famous writers have tackled the subject of ageing. Lawrence Sail reflects on his experience of…

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

A Shed Of One’s Own

Ruth Dugdall visits some famous writing spaces. Ruth Dugdall visits some famous writing spaces – from J. K. Rowling’s Edinburgh…

Kris Kristofferson
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The Silver Tongued Devil And I

Donny O’Rourke on the work and career of an early literary influence, country music star Kris Kristofferson. Donny O’Rourke looks…

Virginia Woolf
Collected Article

One Hundred Years On

Miranda Miller explores three books published in 1922 that represent the birth of literary modernism. Miranda Miller explores three major…

Three keys
Collected Article

On Rules And Writing

Chris Arthur asks whether there’s such a thing as rules for writing and explores the enduring appeal of writers’ rulebooks.…

Dancer
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Dancing About Architecture

C.D. Rose asks whether literature can ever recreate the experience of listening to music. C. D. Rose asks whether literature…

Tibetan Cherry
Collected Article

Discovering The Tibetan Cherry

Helen Kelly on how to research a novel when you can’t travel. Helen Kelly on how to research a novel…

Other mother
Collected Article

The Other Mother

Shanta Everington describes her experiences as an adoptive parent and how adopting her son inspired a PhD. Shanta Everington describes…

Dog
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Canine Companions

Nathalie Abi-Ezzi considers her relationship with dogs, both literary and real life, and what writers can learn from pet ownership.…

Cemetery candles
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D Is For Death

Sophie Duffy shares how facing her own mortality revolutionised her writing. Sophie Duffy tackles the taboo subject of death and…