Alicia Foster speaks with Catherine O’Flynn about her unusual childhood in an isolated former nursing home, growing up goth, her twin passions of visual art and literature, and accidentally becoming a novelist after being an academic.

Sarah Ardizzone speaks with Ann Morgan about the influence of performance on writing, the additional complications of translating graphic novels, and the need for what she calls ‘translation activism’.

Sarah Ardizzone speaks with Ann Morgan about the development of her career as a translator, translating writers in French who sit outside the mainstream, and the challenges of rendering slang convincingly in a different language and setting.

In ‘Why I Write', we talk to a number of RLF writers about what makes them write and why they keep going.

Sarah LeFanu explores the question of what name(s) to use for biographical subjects, the ongoing danger ‘of not being quite critical enough’ when the subject starts to feel like a friend, and the persistent asymmetry of naming men by surname and women by first name.

Caroline Brothers investigates the issue of cultural appropriation in fiction, suggesting the right way for novelists to avoid crossing that line.

Kate Worsley speaks with Bethan Roberts about the rich vernacular in her historical novel She Rises, the origins of its intertwined structure, what learning to sail taught her about character and how her novel has grown into a trilogy.

Kate Worsley speaks with Bethan Roberts about the substantial retraining she took when switching from journalism to fiction writing, the research joy to be found in both disciplines, the problem of impostor syndrome and the value of a good mentor.

Ian McMillan and our host Julia Copus discuss three classic poems by Robert Frost in another instalment of our special ‘Poetry Break’ series.

Chris Westwood shares his Break Point experience, explaining how a reset period in a fresh location helped him both to recover his creative writing self and to understand what had happened to disable it.

Emma Darwin recalls the early days of online writing communities, and explains how her popular blog “This Itch of Writing” came into being.

Andrew Cowan speaks with Bethan Roberts about escaping the noose of perfectionism, what research brings to the writing process and what ‘write what you know’ really means in every genre, his ongoing imposter syndrome and the relative pleasures of writing fiction and guide-books.