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.
Anna Woodford on what teaching creative writing has taught her. Running creative writing workshops for a variety of different groups,…
Brian McCabe on the joys – and terrors – of reading his poetry to an audience. Fifty years after taking…
John Harrison on the traces we leave behind. John Harrison describes his investigations into the earliest human societies, and what…
The questionable joys of running a bookshop. As the child of bookshop owners, Simon Rae grew up knowing that running…
Katharine McMahon on the role of public libraries in her life. Katharine McMahon celebrates the role that public libraries have…
Cal Smyth on researching his crime series. Cal Smyth describes the true events that inspired his Balkan-set crime series, and…
Nicola Baldwin on writing plays about medical science. Nicola Baldwin describes her first forays into writing about medical science, and…
Linda Hoy on an early campaigner for the environment. Linda Hoy reflects on the contribution made by Thoreau to present…
Editor James McConnachie on the delicate art of rejection… As editor of The Author, James McConnachie has had to develop…
Clare Bayley on the importance of getting your characters’ names right. Clare Bayley reflects on the process of choosing names…
Robin Blake on how he copes with a ‘poison-tipped’ question… In the course of his writing career, Robin Blake has…
Tobias Jones on how living in Italy and habitually speaking Italian has affected his writing style. Having lived in Italy…
