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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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Mark Blayney
Mark won the Somerset Maugham award for Two Kinds of Silence. His short stories Doppelgangers and spoken word Loud Music…
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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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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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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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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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Brian Conaghan
Brian Conaghan is an award-winning author of ten young adult and middle-grade novels, which have been published in 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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Christy Ducker
Christy Ducker is the author of four poetry books and pamphlets: Messenger (Smith Doorstop, 2017), Heroes (Smith Doorstop, 2016), Skipper…
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Sophie Duffy
Sophie Duffy is an award-winning novelist who writes about the complications and joys of family relationships. As a Generation X-er,…
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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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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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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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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…