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.
Former obituaries writer Nick Caistor considers how the press learned to say goodbye. Once every newspaper’s chilliest corner, the obituaries…
Playwright Brian McAvera squares up to Samuel Beckett. Can a British or Irish playwright ever escape the influence of Samuel…
Paul Sayer considers the ‘seething brawny’ novels of the working-class north. The great novels of the northern, working-class male experience…
Cynthia Rogerson leafs through the landmark letters of her life. ded for publication but that does not lessen their potential…
Creative or quixotic? Frances Byrnes dared to turn ballet into broadcast radio. Speech radio is ‘bad at abstraction’, Frances Byrnes…
Poet Donny O’Rourke explores how the telephone connects him — with the past. The telephone is not always an instrument…
Thriller writer Helen Grant goes in search of the origins of one of M.R. James’s finest ghost stories. A series…
Diarist and writer Simon Rae wonders if he is frittering away his creative capital. Does writing a diary contribute to…
Living in a caravan inspired a lifetime’s poetry for Gerry Cambridge. Gerry Cambridge recalls the beautiful austerity of his early…
Playwright Clare Bayley finds a refugee story closer to home than she expected. When she began dramatising the stories of…
The writer Nicolette Jones finds herself in some surprising situations. Shanty-singing, bustle-wearing, wreath-laying, street parties, a campaign for lifeboats —…
Brambling, redwing, whooper swan: Jonathan Tulloch describes encounters with winter-visiting birds. Bird-lovers note the arrivals of the cuckoo and swallow,…
