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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.

Scary typewriter
Collected Article

The Ghost In The Machine

Amanda Dalton describes how a childhood brush with the uncanny almost stopped her writing. Amanda Dalton describes how a childhood…

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

Sue Roe – Inspiration

Does ‘inspiration’ actually quicken your breath? Perhaps the neurologists can tell us. Does ‘inspiration’ actually quicken your breath? Perhaps the…

Kate Worsley
Collected Podcast

Kate Worsley, part 2

Kate Worsley speaks with Bethan Roberts about historical vernacular, learning about writing through sailing and how a novel became a…

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

Nick Caistor – Why I Write

It was there and then that my desire to be a translator sprang up. I wanted to gain access to…

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

Donny O’Rourke – Marketing And Me

If the avalanche of self-promotion that overwhelms my inbox leaves me cold, why should anyone else welcome self-flattery from me?…

Rimbaud
Collected Article

Reversifying Rimbaud

Cliff Forshaw describes his fascination with enigmatic French poet, Arthur Rimbaud, and how translating his work led to a reinvention…

Kate Worsley
Collected Podcast

Kate Worsley, part 1

Kate Worsley speaks with Bethan Roberts about the substantial retraining she took when switching from journalism to fiction writing, the…