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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 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…

Collected Audio

Brian Clegg – My Reading Habits

It’s all very well having an idea for a novel, or a topic for a non-fiction book, but it’s folly…

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…

Collected Audio

Sue Roe – In My Bottom Drawer

Let’s see, what else is in here? Of course, the Mr Trubshaw stories! Various people still occasionally ask me, whatever…

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

Collected Audio

Sanjida O’Connell – The Writer As Outsider

As writers, we are all anthropologists, observing the natives and commenting on their customs. As writers, we can tap into…

Collected Video

What’s Your Favourite Children’s Book?

Writers discuss their favourite children’s book. Sanjida O’Connell, Dipo Agboluaje, Leila Rasheed, Shelley Silas, Penny Black, Gabriel Gbadamosi and Jonny…