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Emily Diamand
Emily Diamand is an author of children’s fiction who writes fantasy adventure stories with an environmental theme. Her first novel…
Our Writers
Our directory will help you find any writer, past or present, who has worked as an RLF Fellow. Learn more about their career, how they work with us, and where they operate in the UK. You can also find any articles they may have written for us through their profiles.
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Paul Dodgson
Paul Dodgson is a writer, radio producer, musician and teacher with a special interest in life-writing and scriptwriting. His book On…
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Christy Ducker
Christy Ducker is the author of four poetry books and pamphlets: Messenger (Smith Doorstop, 2017), Heroes (Smith Doorstop, 2016), Skipper…
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Sophie Duffy
Sophie Duffy is an award-winning novelist who writes about the complications and joys of family relationships. As a Generation X-er,…
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Ruth Dugdall
Ruth Dugdall is an internationally published novelist and short-story writer. Her seven novels are inspired by her interest in the…
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Sharon Duggal
Sharon Duggal writes novels and short stories. Her second novel, Should We Fall Behind (Bluemoose, 2020), was shortlisted for the Royal Society…
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Suzannah Dunn
Suzannah Dunn has published eleven novels and two collections of short fiction. Her books include: Quite Contrary (Flamingo,1992), which won…
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Sonia Faleiro
Sonia Faleiro is a nonfiction writer and journalist. Her first book of nonfiction, Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of…
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Peter Fiennes
Peter Fiennes is the author of four critically acclaimed works of nonfiction. His first book, To War with God: The…
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Ele Fountain
Ele Fountain writes contemporary fiction with recurring themes of family, identity and hope. Her books explore subjects which infuse our…
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Alys Fowler
Alys Fowler is a gardener and an award-winning journalist who has written for the weekend Guardian about gardening and the…
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Ella Frears
Ella Frears’ collection Shine, Darling (Offord Road Books, 2020) was a Poetry Book Society recommendation and was shortlisted for both…
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Spenser Frearson
Spenser Frearson has been writing drama and screenplays since he was very young. Over the last thirty years he has…
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Ray French
Ray French was born in Wales to Irish parents, and now lives in Leeds. His first book was The Red…
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Clare Furniss
Clare Furniss is a bestselling author of novels for young adults. Her books portray complex family relationships and the power…
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Caroline Gawn
Caroline Gawn writes radio drama for BBC Radio 4. Her most frequently repeated radio plays are Fresh From the Coast…
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Lesley Glaister
Lesley Glaister is the author of sixteen novels. Her first, Honour Thy Father (Secker and Warburg, 1990), won Somerset Maugham…
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Kirsty Gunn
Kirsty Gunn is an internationally published writer of novels and short stories that focus on ordinary lives and relationships and…
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Ed Harris
Ed is an award-winning, dyslexic playwright, poet and comedy writer based in Brighton. Before finding his feet as a writer,…
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Teresa Heapy
Teresa Heapy is an award-winning children’s book author. She has written nine picture books including Loved to Bits (about a battered teddy…
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Kate Hewitt
Kate Hewitt is the pen name of Katharine Swartz, who is the author of numerous works of contemporary and historical…
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Sarah Hilary
Sarah Hilary is the author of six books in the D.I. Marnie Rome series. Her debut, Someone Else’s Skin, won the…
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Charlie Hill
Charlie Hill is a writer of novels, short stories and memoir, whose work employs a variety of formal approaches. His…
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Christopher Hill
Christopher William Hill is an award-winning playwright, radio dramatist and children’s author. His work is often blackly comic or gothic…