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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.

Illustration by Fran Pulido of woman by window thinking what to write with book birds flying past window.

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Bishopton 3415

Poet Donny O’Rourke explores how the telephone connects him — with the past. The telephone is not always an instrument…

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M.R. James and the Lost Treasure of Father Reinartz

Thriller writer Helen Grant goes in search of the origins of one of M.R. James’s finest ghost stories. A series…

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Mood-scape mapping

Diarist and writer Simon Rae wonders if he is frittering away his creative capital. Does writing a diary contribute to…

Illustration by Fran Pulido of two books that look like open books next to a microphone.

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Caravan Days

Living in a caravan inspired a lifetime’s poetry for Gerry Cambridge. Gerry Cambridge recalls the beautiful austerity of his early…

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The Waves Beneath

Playwright Clare Bayley finds a refugee story closer to home than she expected. When she began dramatising the stories of…

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Toeing Plimsoll’s Line

The writer Nicolette Jones finds herself in some surprising situations. Shanty-singing, bustle-wearing, wreath-laying, street parties, a campaign for lifeboats —…

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Winter Guests

Brambling, redwing, whooper swan: Jonathan Tulloch describes encounters with winter-visiting birds. Bird-lovers note the arrivals of the cuckoo and swallow,…

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Stealing Characters

John Pilkington investigates the writerly practice of reimagining and reworking characters from other authors’ stories. Since Shakespeare delighted Elizabeth I…