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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.
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Annie Caulfield – Why I Write

As I sulked around chilly convent corridors, I imagined that a writing life would be all late rising and escaping…

Illustration by Fran Pulido of two books that look like open books next to a microphone.
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Alyson Hallett – Why I Write

It’s a messy process too. Full of delight and verve and sparkle, as well as failure, submission, defeat.

Illustration by Fran Pulido of two books that look like open books next to a microphone.
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Gavin Weightman – Why I Write

Sometimes it’s exciting, and I wish the British Library had a room where you could roar with delight when an…

Illustration by Fran Pulido of two books that look like open books next to a microphone.
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Jim Kelly – Why I Write

A shy child, I particularly liked the idea that your fame was concentrated in those letters on the cover. You…

Illustration by Fran Pulido of two books that look like open books next to a microphone.
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Paul Sayer – Why I Write

In those days only one in a thousand aspiring authors ever actually made it into print, and I felt I…