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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.

Hugh Thomson
Collected Podcast

Hugh Thomson, part 1

Hugh Thomson speaks with George Miller about travel writing and the fascinations of Peru. Hugh Thomson explains how he started…

Fiona Shaw
Collected Podcast

Fiona Shaw

Fiona Shaw speaks with Frances Byrnes about being unexpectedly driven to write by her own severe emotions. Fiona Shaw tells…

TV
Collected Podcast

Peter Forbes & Stephen Wakelam

Peter Forbes talks us through a word-precise career, and Stephen Wakelam survives changing fashions in TV drama. Peter Forbes talks…

Alex Martin
Collected Podcast

Alex Martin, part 2

Alex Martin speaks with Carole Angier about commissions, identities and fresh adventures in crime fiction. Alex Martin speaks with Carole…

Ian Duhig
Collected Podcast

Ian Duhig, part 2

Ian Duhig talks with Julia Copus about poetic form, artistic collaboration and speaking for the oppressed. Ian Duhig speaks with…

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

Kathy Henderson & Harriet Castor

Kathy Henderson on lullaby collecting, and Harriet Castor on the ‘how you got published’ question. Kathy Henderson shares the pleasure…

Jill Dawson
Collected Podcast

Jill Dawson

Jill Dawson tells Frances Byrnes about writing’s ‘pleasure not punishment’, the importance of physicality and the inspiring richness of the…

Alex Martin
Collected Podcast

Alex Martin, part 1

Alex Martin speaks with Carole Angier about his early journey from children’s writing through textbooks to delightful decadence. Alex Martin…

A Green Thought / Location
Collected Podcast

Jane Feaver & Katharine McMahon

Jane Feaver explores nostalgia and the pastoral, and Katharine McMahon goes on location for her historical fiction. Jane Feaver examines…

Ian Duhig
Collected Podcast

Ian Duhig, part 1

Ian Duhig speaks with Julia Copus about his early life and his famous Lammas Hireling. Ian Duhig speaks with Julia…

Collected Podcast

Elizabeth Speller, part 2

Elizabeth Speller speaks with George Miller about her transition from non-fiction to historical fiction. Elizabeth Speller speaks with George Miller…

Emma Darwin
Collected Podcast

Emma Darwin & Vox

Emma Darwin’s audio diary takes us to the deepest countryside to get on with things, plus recent highlights from Vox.…