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Isabel Adey
Isabel Adey is a literary translator and editor working with Spanish, German and English. She was longlisted two years in…
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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Pragya Agarwal
Dr Pragya Agarwal is a behavioural and data scientist and author of four widely acclaimed nonfiction books. Her first book…
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John Aizlewood
John Aizlewood is an author, journalist, editor and broadcaster specialising in sport, music and culture. He compiled, edited and contributed…
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Francesca Armour-Chelu
Francesca Armour-Chélu is a novelist, children’s author and short-story writer. Her first children’s book, Fenn Halflin and the Fearzero (Walker…
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Chris Arthur
Now living on the east coast of Scotland, Chris Arthur was born in Belfast and grew up in Northern Ireland…
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Lucy Ayrton
Lucy Ayrton is a novelist and lecturer with a special interest in writing about class and marginalised groups. Her first…
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Melissa Bailey
Melissa Bailey is a historical fiction writer. Her first novel, The Medici Mirror, is a tale of murder, sorcery and…
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Laura Barnett
Laura Barnett is a bestselling author and teacher of creative writing, interested in the way fiction can take the world…
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Simon Barraclough
Simon Barraclough is a prize-winning working-class poet, editor and tutor whose first book, Los Alamos Mon Amour (Salt Publishing, 2008)…
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Rosamund Bartlett
As an author, Rosamund Bartlett is best known for her biographies of Chekhov and Tolstoy, for which she drew on…
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Jim Beckett
Jim Beckett is a writer specialising in children’s fiction. The Caravan at the Edge of Doom (HarperCollins, 2021) is an…
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Emily Berry
Emily Berry is a poet, editor and occasional prose writer. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she is…
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Rahul Bery
Rahul Bery is a literary translator, working from Spanish and Portuguese into English. His first full-length translation, Rolling Fields, by…
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Jasbinder Bilan
Bath, Somerset
Jasbinder Bilan is an award-winning children’s author of numerous magical realist middle-grade novels. Her debut Asha and the Spirit Bird…
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Nick Bradley
Nick Bradley is the author of The Cat and The City (Atlantic, 2020) and Four Seasons in Japan (Doubleday, 2023)…
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Carys Bray
Carys Bray is a novelist and short-story writer. Her first novel, A Song for Issy Bradley (Hutchinson, 2014), was shortlisted for…
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Matt Bryden
Matt Bryden’s first pamphlet Night Porter won the 2010 Templar pamphlet prize. His full-length collection Boxing the Compass was published…
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Genevieve Carver
Genevieve Carver is an award-winning writer and performer whose work has spanned poetry and spoken word, theatre, music, screenwriting and…
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Roland Chambers
Roland Chambers is an award-winning biographer, children’s author and illustrator. His biography of Arthur Ransome, The Last Englishman, describes Ransome’s…
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Maisie Chan
Maisie Chan is an award-winning children’s author. Her debut Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths (Piccadilly Press) won the Branford…
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Polly Clark
Polly Clark is the author of three novels and four collections of poetry. Her third novel Ocean was published in hardback by…
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Maeve Clarke
Maeve Clarke is an award-winning writer from Birmingham. Her novel, Trapped Between Two Worlds won the SI Leeds Literary prize…
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Catherine Coe
Catherine Coe is a children’s book author and editor with over forty books published, including the million-selling Blossom Wood series…