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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.

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

Pamela Scobie – Inspiration

A comic squib about domestic angst, which began ‘There’s a nasty niff in the downstairs loo’, developed its own agenda……

Writing on a train
Collected Podcast

How I Write, part 4

In ‘How I Write’, RLF writers discuss their favourite places to work. In this installment of ‘How I Write’, we…

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

Vitali Vitaliev – The Writing Life

I do believe that, alongside metaphors, allegories and similes, a writer’s life itself is but another literary device to be…

Author Peter James.
RLF News Article

My Writing Life: Peter James

Peter James writes crime fiction and is the creator of Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, now a hit ITV drama starring…

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

Steph Morris – Being Genre Fluid

I was asked to co-translate a doorstep on Joseph Beuys, then a monograph on choreographer Pina Bausch and her innovative…

In Hospital
Collected Article

Nil By Mouth

Alex Nye shares how a month in a hospital bed, unable to read or write, challenged and changed her as…

Jamie Lee Searle
Collected Podcast

Jamie Lee Searle

Jamie Lee Searle speaks with Ann Morgan about translation and how it feeds into her other writing. Jamie Lee Searle…

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

William Ryan

A photograph is often very revealing. I’ve written an entire novel based on a photograph album owned by the adjutant…