Helping Writers
Sometimes bad things happen to good writers. That’s why the Royal Literary Fund is here. From illness to bereavement, from credit card debt to work drying up, we all go...
Anne Donovan
Anne Donovan is a novelist and short-story writer. She is the author of the short-story collection Hieroglyphics (2001) and the novels Buddha Da (2003), Being Emily (2008) and Gone are...
Elena Lappin
Elena Lappin is a novelist and journalist. She is the author of a collection of stories, Foreign Brides (Picador, 1999), and a novel, The Nose (Picador, 2001). Her investigative narrative...
Basir Sultan Kazmi, MBE
Born in Pakistan in 1955, Basir studied and taught English at the Government College in Lahore. He edited Ravi (1974) and was the office bearer of the college literary and...
Simon Jenner
Simon Jenner is a poet and commissioning editor, writing on music and poetry. Belatedly educated at Leeds and Cambridge, his PhD was a study of 1940s Oxford poetry. His debut...
Laura Hird
Laura Hird is the award-winning author of the collections Nail and Other Stories (Canongate, 1997) and Hope and Other Urban Tales (Canongate, 2006). Her novel Born Free (Canongate, 2007) was...
Diana Hendry
Diana Hendry is a poet, short-story writer and children’s author. She has published five collections of poems — Making Blue (Peterloo, 1995), Borderers (Peterloo, 2001), Twelve Lilts: psalms & responses...
Selina Hastings
Selina Hastings is a literary biographer. She worked for 14 years as assistant literary editor on the Daily Telegraph and for eight years as literary editor of Harper’s & Queen....
Graeme Grant
Graeme Grant has published thirty books under his own name and a variety of pseudonyms. He is also a freelance feature and travel journalist, an ex-advertising copywriter and ex-publisher. Several...
Maree Giles
Maree Giles is an Australian novelist and creative writing tutor who has lived in Britain for thirty years. She has more than 35 years experience as a writer and studied...