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.
Remember to keep a notebook at all times. It’s your impressions I’m after; like the bicycle clips worn by one…
A fellow writer pointed out, when we discovered our shared enthusiasm for Enid Blyton’s masterpiece, The Magic Faraway Tree was…
The longstanding members have been reading a book a month together for nearly twenty years, and are responsible for choosing…
Jean Rhys taught me about writing; the process, the agony, the joy of getting it right. Jean Rhys taught me…
Part channelling, waiting for the characters show me the story, and part treasure hunt, wondering where we’ll end up. Part…
How to evoke, with sensuous conviction; immediacy, with personal engagement; these hidden stretches of human time? How to evoke, with…
I’d like to think that this makes us better at understanding other people,… On the other hand it probably makes…
Everything I wrote was so awful that I came to a full halt; terrified of what dire nonsense would spout…
Writing’s a tightrope. Don’t look back, don’t look down; look ahead, walk on… I looked back. Writing’s a tightrope. Don’t…
I was influenced by Ntozake Shange’s seamless style and the choral element in Ted Hughes’ Oedipus. I was influenced by…
I do still write fiction, but it tips into life. I start with twists of yellow gold and before I…
A sentence that seems perfect when scribbled down in the middle of the night, can often appear, in the bracing…
