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.
Kevin Clarke discovers the history of the English court echoes his experience of the cut-throat world of television drama. After…
Fraser Grace unexpectedly finds he may have a future in writing about his own past. The writer gradually learns to…
Strategies to break the curse of writer’s block, when creative invention fades. Writer’s block can be a dark tunnel where…
Duncan Forbes describes the challenges and insights of translating poetry Duncan Forbes describes the challenges and consolations of translating poetry…
Unused research: a concatenation of vice, gambling, Mormonism, hideous landscapes, a dead sea, padlocked beer — and the atomic bomb.…
Is ‘having a message’ or ‘wanting to say something’ old-fashioned and a detriment to the development of great art? ‘Having…
Does the art of turning ‘true life’ into biography, film or television inevitably lead to a manipulation of the truth.…
A change of place, finding a new muse, a different verse form, there are many ways to trigger a writer’s…
Could artificial intelligence and big data predict the bestsellers of the future. Could artificial intelligence and big data predict the…
Ray French on why writing in dialect can present problems when it comes to getting published, and why this should…
Stephanie Norgate on cinema’s seemingly inexhaustible fascination with writers and writing. Stephanie Norgate reflects on why are there so many…
Christina Koning on researching a novel with a wartime Amsterdam setting. Arriving in Amsterdam to research a novel set during…
