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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.

Testament (Andrew Brooks)
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Testament

Leeds

Testament (Andrew Brooks) is a rapper, poet and dramatist. His work often ties in social commentary and magic realism and…

Juliet Clare Bell
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Juliet Clare Bell

Birmingham

Juliet Clare Bell (always known as Clare) is a children’s author. Her focus is on telling engaging stories (mostly for…

Jim Carruth
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Jim Carruth

Glasgow

Jim Carruth is a poet, editor and awards and events programmer. His first pamphlet, Bovine Pastoral, came out in 2004 and…

Rebecca Colby
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Rebecca Colby

Harrogate

Rebecca Colby is an award-winning author, poet and screenwriter. She has published over forty-eight children’s books with Macmillan, Penguin Random House,…

Sharon Duggal
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Sharon Duggal

Hove

Sharon Duggal writes novels and short stories. Her second novel, Should We Fall Behind (Bluemoose, 2020), was shortlisted for the Royal Society…

Isabelle Dupuy by Carl Juste
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Isabelle Dupuy

Taunton

Isabelle Dupuy left Haiti with a scholarship to go to university in America, dreaming of a safe job, a business…

Clementine Ewokolo Burnley
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Clementine Ewokolo Burnley

Edinburgh

Clementine Ewokolo Burnley is a poet and writer based in Edinburgh. When she’s not writing she’s a trainee psychotherapist, trauma-informed…

Alys Fowler
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Alys Fowler

Aberystwyth

Alys Fowler is a gardener and an award-winning journalist who has written for the weekend Guardian about gardening and the…

Christopher Hill
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Christopher Hill

Sherborne

Christopher William Hill is an award-winning playwright, radio dramatist and children’s author. His work is often blackly comic or gothic…

Elizabeth Barrett
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Elizabeth Holloway

Sheffield

Dr Elizabeth Holloway (formerly Elizabeth Barrett) is an award-winning poet whose work has been published extensively in journals and anthologies.…

Harry Man
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Harry Man

Darlington

Harry Man is an award-winning poet, playwright and translator. His work has been published in newspapers and literary journals nationally…

Chris Rose
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C.D. Rose

Todmorden

C. D. Rose is a writer of fiction. Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea is a collection of short stories…

Jamie Lee Searle
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Jamie Lee Searle

Winchester

Jamie Lee Searle is a literary translator, writer and mentor. She translates German-language and Portuguese-language writing into English for publishing…

Ian Seed
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Ian Seed

Lancaster

Ian Seed is an award-winning poet, translator, short-story writer, essayist and editor. With a surreal edge, his writing often exposes…

Amanda Smyth
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Amanda Smyth

Leamington Spa

Amanda Smyth is Irish-Trinidadian, and author of three novels. Her first novel, Black Rock, was based on the murder of…

Alex Wong
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Alex Wong

Cambridge

Alex Wong is a poet and literary critic with an increasing interest in the medium of essayistic prose. He has…