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.
Letters, photographs, newspaper cuttings… writers have always found inspiration in ephemera. Some have carried hoarding to excess, as Nicolette Jones…
Max Adams pieces together the history of the Golden Gospel, an eighth century illuminated manuscript. The peripatetic history of the…
John Pilkington considers the reason why authors like to hide their identities. Why do some writers choose to use a…
Diane Samuels discovers in the Tarot a ‘universal language for the imagination’. Generally associated with fortune-telling rather than story-telling, the…
Linda Buckley-Archer considers the relationship between the novel and cinema. Although primarily a visual medium, the cinema has always relied…
A fascination with mathematics prompted Brian McCabe to explore new directions in his poetry. Brian McCabe’s fascination with mathematics began…
Anna Reynolds describes the challenges of turning real lives into drama. Working with a group of young carers, on a…
Miranda Miller’s approach to writing her fiction involves an idiosyncratic way of ‘seeing’ the past. As a writer of historical…
Katharine McMahon describes her fascination with the Brontë sisters, and the way their lives have been interwoven with her own.…
David Davies on how he – and other crime writers – think up their ingenious plots. Faced with the perennial…
How Charles Jennings finds solace in his suburban surroundings. The suburbs have often been dismissed as dull, but for Charles…
Brian McAvera describes how he came to write his series of plays on the women in Picasso’s life. When Brian…
