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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.

Marbled paper
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On Marbling

Penny Boxall explores her long-standing fascination with the traditional craft of marbling. Penny Boxall explores her fascination with the traditional…

Jellyfish
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Culling Words

Chris Arthur explores the world of obscure collective nouns, arguing that some should be retired for good. Obscure collective nouns…

Handwritten list
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Listerary Fiction

Dilys Rose explores how the humble list has inspired great literature. Written lists have existed for millennia. So often considered…

Sir Philip Sidney
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In The Shadow Of Arcadia

Philip Womack considers his long-standing obsession with Sidney’s sixteenth-century epic, The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia. Philip Womack describes his long-standing…

Creative collaboration
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Creative Collaborations

Lisa Evans reflects on the literary alliances in her lifelong journey to professional playwright. Lisa Evans reflects on her lifelong…

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Voices From The Past

Leigh Russell asks whether modern writers can ever create authentic historical voices. Leigh Russell describes writing her first historical novel…

A wormhole
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Scientific Outsider Syndrome

Brian Clegg on bridging the communication gap between practicing scientists and the general public. Brian Clegg on his experience as…

hat and map
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Basic Instincts

Lee Weatherly on the value of writerly intuition. Lee Weatherly on the value of writerly intuition and how professional experience…

Illustration by Fran Pulido of a person wearing glasses with lenses that look like written pieces of paper.
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Fridays Behind Bars

Simon Booker on his experience as writer in residence at HMP Grendon. Simon Booker describes how a stint as writer…

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My Darling Temeraire

John Harrison on a famous ship, painted by a famous artist. John Harrison describes the last voyage of the Temeraire,…

Grandmother and grandchild
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Granny’s Voice

Penny Hancock on literary grandparents. Penny Hancock asks why there are so few grandparents in literature, when compared with the…