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News & Features

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.

Ukraine scene
Collected Article

My Second Mother Tongue

Vitali Vitaliev considers the joys and challenges experienced by bilingual authors and revisits his childhood to remember his first teacher…

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

Paul Mason – How I Write

Don’t worry about computers, quiet offices, special chairs. Your two most crucial writing tools are a ukulele and an old…

Frog and butterfly
Collected Podcast

Bethan Roberts & Lawrence Sail

Bethan Roberts explores the processes by which truth transmutes into fiction, and Lawrence Sail considers the balance between recognition and…

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

Andrew Cowan – Writer’s Block

Dorothea Brande’s Becoming A Writer is premised on the idea that the writer is essentially two people: the artist child…

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

Lydia Syson – Being Genre Fluid

I thought I was writing history, a novel for teenagers that told the story of British involvement in the Spanish…

Glasgow sunset
Collected Article

From The Sea To The Mountains

Amber Lee Dodd shares how the move to a new city impacted her writing, inspiring her to make braver creative…

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

Cherise Saywell – Rejection

As a writer, you’re only in control of how good the work is. None of this means I don’t feel…

Newcastle
Collected Podcast

Location And The Writer, part 21

In ‘Location and the Writer’, Karl Whitney takes us to the Central Motorway area of Newcastle upon Tyne, and Zoë…