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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.

Snail in gap
Collected Article

Mind The Gap

Sarah Williams on some of the challenges of a translator’s life. Sarah Williams describes the range of challenges she has…

Harmonica
Collected Article

Harps Without Angels

Gerry Cambridge on his enriching and at times exasperating relationship with an extraordinary instrument. Art forms often have similarities based…

Ancient Egypt
Collected Article

Stranger Than Fiction?

Mary Colson on why she prefers facts to fiction. Mary Colson on her enduring love of facts, and how this…

Female acrobat
Collected Article

Into A Land Of Pure Magic

Rick Stroud on how his daughter Nell Gifford fell in love with the circus. Reflecting on his daughter Nell Gifford’s…

Burning book
Collected Article

What Is A Political Novel?

Miranda Miller on dealing with political ideas in fiction. Miranda Miller considers some examples of the ‘political novel’, and reflects…

Sea and Tamarisk
Collected Article

The Place That Is And Isn’t

Stephanie Norgate on why writers are constantly in search of lost places. Remembering her own childhood holidays in Italy, Stephanie…

Kale in lockdown
Collected Article

Writers In Lockdown, part 3

Valerie Gillies, Helen Grant, Tracey Herd and Sheena Wilkinson on life in lockdown. Valerie Gillies describes a changed world; Helen…

Klimt Kiss
Collected Article

Finding the Woman In ‘The Kiss’

Penny Black on writing about an extraordinary woman. Researching her play about Emile Flöge, friend and business partner of the…

Mouse in lockdown
Collected Article

Writers In Lockdown, part 2

Geoff Barker, Doug Johnstone and Donny O’Rourke share their lockdown experiences. Geoff Barker shares his diary of week 9; Doug…

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

Writers In Lockdown

Bashabi Fraser, Bill Kirton and Cynthia Rogerson on their lockdown experience. Bashabi Fraser misses her grandson; Bill Kirton gets lost…

Coffee cup with message
Collected Article

The Story Of Ourselves

Miranda France on why we need stories to explain our experience. As a writer of non-fiction and memoir, Miranda France…