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Emma Strang
Em Strang is an award-winning poet and novelist, preoccupied with nature, spirituality (in particular, Christian mysticism) and the question of…
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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Julie Summers
Julie Summers is a bestselling nonfiction author, historian and broadcaster. Her work focuses on stories of ordinary people faced with…
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Amanda Swift
Amanda Swift writes children’s fiction, specialising in comedy. Her novels for nine- to 12-year-olds, The Boys’ Club, Big Bones and…
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Lydia Syson
Lydia Syson writes fiction and non-fiction on historical themes for readers of all ages. Mr Peacock’s Possessions, her debut adult…
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Malachy Tallack
Malachy Tallack is an award-winning author, whose work – both fiction and nonfiction – centres around themes of place, community…
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Gillian Thompson
Gill Thompson is the author of four historical fiction novels, set in and around World War Two. The Oceans Between…
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Rhiannon Tise
Rhiannon Tise is an award-winning writer for radio, theatre and television. In 2017 her ten-part adaptation of Louisa May Allcott’s…
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Claudine Toutoungi
Claudine Toutoungi is an award-winning playwright and poet. Her first collection Smoothie (Carcanet, 2017) received warm reviews and was followed…
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Jonathan Tulloch
Jonathan Tulloch is a prizewinning novelist and naturalist. He writes the Natures Notes for the Times and has published ten…
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Hannah Vincent
Hannah Vincent is an award-winning playwright. She has also written two novels, Alarm Girl (2014) and The Weaning (2018) and…
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Vitali Vitaliev
Vitali Vitaliev is a UK-based multi-award-winning and fully bilingual (English-Russian) author, columnist, editor and broadcaster. Starting his career in the…
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Steve Voake
Steve Voake is the award-winning author of several young adult novels including The Dreamwalker’s Child, The Starlight Conspiracy and Blood…
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Mirza Waheed
Mirza Waheed was born and brought up in Kashmir. His debut novel, The Collaborator, was an international bestseller, a finalist…
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Christopher Wakling
Christopher Wakling’s seven acclaimed novels include Escape and Evasion (Faber), a tragicomedy about a rogue banker’s Copernican change of heart; What…
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Wendy Wallace
Wendy Wallace writes novels exploring the lives of Victorian women. Her first, The Painted Bridge, was set in a women’s…
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Stuart Walton
Stuart Walton is a cultural historian, critical theorist and novelist. His widely acclaimed comparative study, Out of It: A Cultural…
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Sarah Ward
Sarah Ward is a crime novelist who also writes gothic thrillers under the pen name Rhiannon Ward. Her first book,…
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Roz Watkins
Roz Watkins is an acclaimed crime writer, author of a detective series set in the Peak District and a standalone…
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David Watson
David Watson is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. His work has been staged at venues including the Royal Court and…
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Rebecca Watts
Rebecca Watts is a poet, literary critic and editor. Her debut collection, The Met Office Advises Caution (Carcanet, 2016), was…
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Sheena Wilkinson
Described in The Irish Times as ‘one of our foremost writers for young people’, Sheena Wilkinson writes novels and short…
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Sarah Williams
S. W. Williams has published books under three different names, each of which marks a different phase of her writing…
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Roy Williams
Roy began writing plays in 1990. In 2000 he was the joint-winner of the George Devine award and in 2001…
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Heidi Williamson
Norwich
Heidi Williamson is an award-winning poet and creative-writing tutor. Her first collection, Electric Shadow (Bloodaxe, 2011) was a Poetry Book…