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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…
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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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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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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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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Geoff Barker
Geoff Barker is a writer and editor. For many years Geoff specialised in creating part-work series on varied non-fiction subjects…
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Michael Bird
St Ives, Cornwall
Michael Bird is an independent art historian, with special interests in modern art, cultural history and the ‘art/life divide’. His…
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Tessa Boase
Tessa Boase is an editor, journalist and author, specialising in popular history books for adults. After a career in national…
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Jane Borodale
Jane Borodale is a fiction writer with a particular interest in the history of ordinary people, often in the context…
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Penny Boxall
Penny Boxall is an award-winning poet whose work draws on her career in museums. Her first collection, Ship of the…
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Caroline Brothers
Caroline Brothers is a novelist who explores the lives of ordinary people dealing with the aftermath of extraordinary events. Her…
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Deborah Chancellor
Deborah Chancellor is a writer of children’s fiction and non-fiction. To date, she has written nearly 100 books for a variety…
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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…
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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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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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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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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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James Friel
James Friel is the author of The Posthumous Affair, The Higher Realm, Left of North, Taking the Veil and Careless…
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Valerie Gillies
Valerie Gillies is a poet and non-fiction writer, whose books include Tweed Journey and The Lightning Tree. As a young…
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Katie Grant
Born into a recusant Lancashire family described by Lord Burghley, treasurer to Elizabeth I, as ‘of more than usual perversity’,…
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Helen Grant
Helen Grant writes Gothic thrillers for a crossover (young adult/adult) audience. She draws on atmospheric locations and local folklore for…
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Penny Hancock
Penny Hancock is a novelist, short story writer, journalist and teacher. Her first novel Tideline (Simon and Schuster 2012), a…
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Christina Hopkinson
Christina Hopkinson is a novelist and journalist specialising in writing about contemporary issues in a witty and incisive way —…