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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.

Collected Podcast

Charlie Hill

Charlie Hill speaks with Ann Morgan about becoming a better writer book by book, the value or otherwise of creative…

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Collected Podcast

The experience of being published

Mary-Jane Riley shares her experience of getting published, Beth Miller remembers publication day, Alys Fowler reveals how she celebrates a…

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Collected Article

The Finishing Line

So – what now? RLF Fellow Mary Colson on what it’s like to actually finish a book.

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Collected Podcast

My True Genre, part 1

In the first installment of our ‘My True Genre’ series, RLF Fellows discuss how writers discover which form of writing…

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Collected Article

The gift of failure

It’s something of a cliché to say that we learn more from our failures than we do from our successes.…

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

Writing Technique, part 2

William Ryan shares insights into how he writes scenes, Lauren James talks about their writing method and Menna van Praag…

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Collected Article

Utopias

Catherine O’Flynn – once described as ‘The J. G. Ballard of Birmingham – on broken utopias and the realities behind…

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Collected Article

Rediscovering Ivy Compton-Burnett

On the 140th anniversary of her birth, Stuart Jeffries revisits one of Britain’s finest but neglected novelists.