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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.

The Literary Midwife
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The Literary Midwife

The novelist Anna Haycraft (Alice Thomas Ellis) died of lung cancer in 2005. Deborah Bosley, who along with Beryl Bainbridge,…

CantWrite
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Can’t Write, Won’t Write

Writer’s block has become a cliché of Grub Street patois. At best it’s lazy terminology, at worst, a poor excuse…

Loving Our Slavery
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Loving Our Slavery

For much of the 20th century, George Orwell’s boot stamping on a head was a better metaphor for political repression…

Hesse
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Hermann Hesse, LSD and Me

Timothy Leary considered Herman Hesse to be the ‘master guide’ to the hallucinatory experience; at 19, Paul Sayer, obsessed with…

EIBF
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Vanity Fair

Literary festivals are sprouting all over the UK, from Dartington to Althorp. But do visitors roll up for the literature,…

Type R for Recovery
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Type ‘R’ for Recovery

Writing for emotional survival is familiar; writing for physical survival less so. Yet the physical act of writing raised Sara…