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.
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…
Beatrice Colin on the way that character and plot are intertwined. Plot is often the hardest thing to get right…
Gerry Cambridge on freelancing for Reader’s Digest as a young man. How writing poetry became a free imaginative space for…
Brian McCabe considers the importance or otherwise of acknowledging one’s influences. In the course of his writing career, Brian McCabe…
Sally Cline reflects on the way that water has shaped her writing life. From the early years of her writing…
Morgen Witzel shows that writing about history can be a smelly business. As a writer of historical fiction, Morgen Witzel…
Karen Wallace describes a journey down memory lane. In search of inspiration for her first novel, Karen Wallace went back…
In time of war you can be shot for it, but as Fraser Grace finds, collaboration is an occupational hazard…
