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Jane Draycott
Jane Draycott is a poet whose collections from Carcanet Press include The Occupant, Over (nominated for the 2009 T.S. Eliot…
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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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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Heather Dyer
Heather Dyer is an award-winning children’s author. The Fish in Room 11 (Chicken House/Scholastic) won the Highland book awards in…
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Jonathan Edwards
Newport
Jonathan Edwards’s first collection of poems, My Family and Other Superheroes (Seren, 2014) received the Costa Poetry award and the…
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Susan Elliot Wright
Susan Elliot Wright is the bestselling author of five novels, most recently All You Ever Wanted (Simon & Schuster, 2022).…
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Lucy English
Lucy English was born in Sri Lanka and grew up in London. She has a BA in American and English…
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Robin Etherington
Robin Etherington is a writer of children’s fiction and all-ages graphic novels, as well as numerous comic strips for print…
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Julian Evans
Julian Evans is a biographer, travel writer and translator. His first book Transit of Venus (Secker & Warburg, 1992; Eland…
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Lisa Evans
Lisa Evans started out as an actor, training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and then working both…
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Fiona Evans
Kilmarnock
Fiona Evans is an award-winning playwright who writes for theatre, radio and television. Her Edinburgh Fringe play Scarborough about an…
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Shanta Everington
Leigh-on-Sea, Essex
Shanta Everington is a creative writer working across a range of forms, including fiction, poetry and life writing. Much of…
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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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Clare Fisher
Clare Fisher is a fiction writer. Her debut novel, All the Good Things (Viking, Penguin, 2017) won a Betty Trask…
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Alicia Foster
Alicia Foster trained as an art historian before becoming a novelist. Her first novel Warpaint (Penguin, Figtree, 2013) tells 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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Miranda France
Miranda France’s writing encompasses fiction, non-fiction and reportage; she also translates from Spanish. Her first book was commissioned after she…
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Bashabi Fraser, CBE
Bashabi Fraser is a poet, children’s writer and critic academic. Her publications include Rabindranath Tagore (2019), The Homing Bird (2017), and Letters to my Mother…
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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…