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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.

Duty to the dead
Collected Article

A Duty To The Dead

Crime writer and former journalist David Mark explores the ethics of writing fiction about true crimes. Crime writer and former…

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

Regi Claire – Being Genre Fluid

Jo Ann Beard’s ‘The Fourth State of Matter’ reads like literary fiction but is actually a true account of a…

Juliet Gilkes Romero
Collected Podcast

Juliet Gilkes Romero, part 2

Juliet Gilkes Romero speaks with Ann Morgan about her career so far and her experience as writer in residence of…

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

Rebecca Mascull – How I Write

I am a planner. But a kind of magic happens in the writing itself, whereby plots I’ve planned veer off…

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

Doug Johnstone – Inspiration

Iain Banks said there was a secret website called www.ideasforwriters.com; ‘You just go there and it generates ideas for you’.…

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

Martin Day – Rejection

While it’s true that most writers get better at receiving negative feedback, to have too hard a skin can be…

Stories of migration
Collected Article

Stories Of Migration

Nathalie Abi-Ezzi on how a textile art project in London’s East End pushed the boundaries of her work. Nathalie Abi-Ezzi…

Juliet Gilkes Romero
Collected Podcast

Juliet Gilkes Romero, part 1

Juliet Gilkes Romero speaks with Ann Morgan about her journey into playwriting. Juliet Gilkes Romero speaks with Ann Morgan about…