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Frantz Fanon: revolutionary psychiatrist
The third edition of The WritersMosaic Quarterly, Frantz Fanon: Revolutionary Psychiatrist, is available now.
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Collected: The Podcast – December 2025
This month, authors Paula Hawkins and Vanessa Collingridge joined our Collected: The Podcast hosts to explore the RLF's sound archives and share their…
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My Writing Life: Craig Brown
"I remind myself each day that being a writer is better than the alternatives."
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My Writing Life: Alice Jolly
"I can conquer the world between 7 and 11 am. After that, I am no good for anything."
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“Against this backdrop, I wrote and I wrote...”
For International Day of Disabled Persons 2025, RLF beneficiary Penny Pepper on the fight for the disability narrative in fiction
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A Conradian voyage: following in the footsteps of Joseph Conrad
Robert Hampson, editor of The Conradian, shares his perspective on the life and work of RLF beneficiary Joseph Conrad
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November 2025

Collected: The Podcast – November 2025
Satinder Chohan joined Juliet Gilkes Romero for our most recent episode of Collective: The Podcast, following Elif Shafak's conversation with presenter…
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From stage to page: the creative life of Noel Streatfeild
As Ballet Shoes opens at the National Theatre, we take a look at the life of the books' original author Noel Streatfeild, an RLF beneficiary.
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My Writing Life: Bill Broady
"Writer’s block is really hard for authors... You have to be persistent and just keep going."
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Telling other people's stories: a writers' responsibility
Lone Wolf author Adam Weymouth on slow travel, learning to listen, and the ethics of non-fiction storytelling
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Elif Shafak on RLF's Collected: The Podcast
The internationally bestselling novelist talks to host Doug Johnstone about her creative process, activism, and love of heavy metal music
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My Writing Life: Deborah Frances-White
"I am all or nothing. The trick is to be 'all' often enough that the 'nothing' days don’t count."
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