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Michael Abbensetts
Michael Abbensetts began his writing career with short stories, but decided to turn to playwriting after seeing a performance 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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Nathalie Abi-Ezzi
Tonbridge, Kent
Nathalie Abi-Ezzi is a novelist and short-story writer. Her birthplace, Lebanon, inspired her first two novels. A Girl Made of…
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Rebecca Abrams
Rebecca Abrams writes both fiction and non-fiction, loosely linked by a fascination with hidden histories, forgotten lives and unsung pioneers.…
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Paul Adam
Paul Adam has written thirteen novels for adults and an award-winning trilogy for children. He has a particular interest in…
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Jane Adams
Jane Adams is the author of 25 published novels in the crime genre. Her first novel, The Greenway, was nominated…
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Diran Adebayo
Diran Adebayo is an acclaimed novelist, academic and cultural critic best known for his stylish, picaresque takes on modern Britain.…
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Dipo Agboluaje
Oladipo ‘Dipo’ Agboluaje is a playwright and academic. His first play Early Morning was produced in 2003 at Oval House…
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Rukhsana Ahmad
Rukhsana Ahmad has achieved distinction across several genres. Song for a Sanctuary, her first play, led to numerous commissions for…
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Alice Albinia
Alice Albinia is an award-winning author of conjoined works of fiction and nonfiction. Her first book, Empires of the Indus:…
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Lynne Alexander
Lynne Alexander was an accomplished harpsichordist before turning to writing in 1980. Her first novel, Safe Houses, was published in…
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Lulu Allison
Corscombe, Dorset
All that I know about writing has come from reading. Though I loved books, my path was hardwired to art,…
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Judith Allnatt
Judith Allnatt is the author of four published novels. A Mile of River was a Radio 5 Live book of…
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Gillian Allnutt
Gillian Allnutt has published eight collection of poetry, six of them with Bloodaxe. How the Bicycle Shone: new & selected…
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Karin Altenberg
Karin Altenberg was born in Sweden and moved to the UK in 1996. She is a novelist and occasional translator…
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Carole Angier
Carole Angier is the award-winning biographer of Jean Rhys and Primo Levi. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal…
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Sarah Ardizzone
Sarah Ardizzone is a translator from the French with forty-something titles to her name. Her work spans picture books, graphic novels and travel…
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David Armstrong
Following a dismal school ‘career’, David eventually read English at Cardiff in the 1970s and then taught in a Shropshire…
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Peter Arnott
Born in Glasgow in 1962, Peter is the writer of many professionally produced stage plays starting with White Rose (Traverse…
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Chris Arthur
Chris Arthur is primarily an essayist. His work explores aspects of family, place, memory, loss and meaning in a lyrically…
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Isabel Ashdown
Isabel Ashdown is the author of ten novels, most recently Weathering (Orion, 2023). In writing – and reading – she…
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Helena Attlee
Helena Attlee is a well-established non-fiction author and feature writer. Although best known for her works on Italy and the…
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James Attlee
James Attlee is a widely published writer specialising in creative nonfiction, travel and art. His book Isolarion: A Different Oxford…
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Ian Ayris
Ian Ayris is the author of three novels, a novella, and over forty short stories. The first of his trilogy…