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.
Roopa Farooki discusses how tapping her unconscious mind allowed her writing to soar. Roopa Farooki’s problem has never been writer’s…
Tom Bryan discusses how to achieve a literary legacy. Cervantes spoke of the ‘strange charm’ in hoping for a good…
When ‘austerity theatre’ must cut the cloth to fit tight financial constraints, the result is smaller casts, simpler sets and…
Jo Mazelis was born in Wales and lives there now, but she resists being pegged as a ‘local author’ just…
In Mexico today real-life crime is both stranger and more egregious than fiction. But where does this leave writers who…
The novelist Anna Haycraft (Alice Thomas Ellis) died of lung cancer in 2005. Deborah Bosley, who along with Beryl Bainbridge,…
Writer’s block has become a cliché of Grub Street patois. At best it’s lazy terminology, at worst, a poor excuse…
For much of the 20th century, George Orwell’s boot stamping on a head was a better metaphor for political repression…
Timothy Leary considered Herman Hesse to be the ‘master guide’ to the hallucinatory experience; at 19, Paul Sayer, obsessed with…
Literary festivals are sprouting all over the UK, from Dartington to Althorp. But do visitors roll up for the literature,…
Writing for emotional survival is familiar; writing for physical survival less so. Yet the physical act of writing raised Sara…
