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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.

Isabel Adey
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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…

John Aizlewood
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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…

Francesca Armour-Chélu
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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…

Lucy Ayrton
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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…

Simon Barraclough by Josh Caius
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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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Bob Beagrie

Bob Beagrie is a widely published working-class poet whose work draws upon and reconfigures the tradition of epic verse, employing…

Kaddy Benyon
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Kaddy Benyon

Kaddy Benyon is a Granta New Poet. Her first collection Milk Fever (Salt, 2012) was shortlisted for the Picador poetry…

Rahul Bery by Jorge Lizalde
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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…

Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti
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Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti

Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti writes for stage, screen and radio. Her work spans state-of-the-nation plays such as A Kind of People…

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Rachel Bower

Rachel Bower is an award-winning poet and novelist from Bradford. Her debut novel, It Comes from the River was published…

Nick Bradley
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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)…

Carys Bray
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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…

Alison Bruce
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Alison Bruce

Alison Bruce is an award-nominated crime author based in Cambridge. Her first novel, Cambridge Blue, was described by Publishers’ Weekly…

Matt Bryden
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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…

Sam Byers
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Sam Byers

Sam Byers is a novelist. Often satirical in tone, his work is set in an exaggerated, distorted version of present-…

Roland Chambers
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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…

Maeve Clarke
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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…

Catherine Coe
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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…

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Tammy Cohen

Tammy Cohen is an acclaimed novelist and former journalist. Writing both as Tamar Cohen and Tammy Cohen, she has penned…

Marianne Colbran
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Marianne Colbran

Marianne Colbran is a nonfiction writer and screenwriter/playwright. Having started her career writing for a police show, she is fascinated…

Rowan Coleman
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Rowan Coleman

Rowan Coleman is the internationally bestselling author and screenwriter of more than thirty cross-genre novels and screenplays. Her first novel…

Brian Conaghan
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Brian Conaghan

Brian Conaghan is an award-winning author of ten young adult and middle-grade novels, which have been published in a variety…

Mary Cooper by Alan Hamer
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Mary Cooper

Mary Cooper is an award-winning writer whose work embraces theatre, radio, television, film, digital narratives and podcasts. She has written…

Kim Curran
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Kim Curran

Kim Curran is an author, freelance creative director and writing mentor. She has published six books for young people and…