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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.

Abstract art umbrella
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Spilling Off The Page

Deborah Gearing on working with visual artists. As the only writer in a group of visual artists taking part in…

Bob Marley
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Rastaman Vibrations

Millie Murray on the legendary singer-songwriter who made her a writer. Listening to the music of Bob Marley as a…

Forget me not
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Writing Our Way Home

Penny Hancock on the need for writers to identify with place. Her mother’s worsening dementia made Penny Hancock realise how…

Abandoned swimming pool
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Abandoned Buildings

Rhiannon Tise on why she is obsessed with abandoned buildings. Rhiannon Tise’s fascination with abandoned buildings and derelict man-made spaces…

Children's party balloons
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When Memory Distils Into Fiction

Miranda Miller on a childhood experience that profoundly affected her. Miranda Miller describes how a troubling encounter in childhood has…

Loft window
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The Story In The Attic

Alicia Foster on the perennial appeal of the attic room for artist and writers. Researching her study of the artist…

Writing germ
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Where Do You Get Your Ideas?

Katharine Grant wonders where her ideas come from. An author’s ideas are essential to the writing process, but how and…

Boat and lightning
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Writing And Madness

Horatio Clare reflects on the nature of the creative impulse. Are writers mad — or only very sane? Horatio Clare…

Gears meshing
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Collaborating With Other Writers

Jonny Wright on the pleasures and occasional problems of collaborative writing. As a scriptwriter, Jonny Wright has grown used to…

Woman in city at night
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Forays Into Memoir

Cynthia Rogerson on the advantages and disadvantages of writing autobiography. In writing about her past, Cynthia Rogerson found that employing…

Torun in WW2
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Looking For My Father

Sue Purkiss on revisiting her father’s wartime past. Researching a book based on her father’s experiences as a prisoner of…

Packing box
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A Moving Story

When getting rid of books becomes unavoidable. When he came to move house, Roy Bainton was faced with the painful…