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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.

Nick Holdstock
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Nick Holdstock

Nick Holdstock is a writer of fiction and non-fiction. His first non-fiction book, The Tree That Bleeds (Luath, 2012) was a…

Julia Hollander
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Julia Hollander

Julia Hollander writes nonfiction that originates in the lived experience, interweaving personal narratives with cutting-edge research. Her first book, Indian…

Elizabeth Holloway
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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.…

Peter Hollywood
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Peter Hollywood

Peter Hollywood was twenty-one when his first short story ‘The Accident’ was accepted by the famed editor David Marcus for…

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Lakshmi Holmström, MBE

Lakshmi Holmstrom was a writer and translator, working from Tamil into English. Over 30 years she translated short stories, novels…

Christina Hopkinson
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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 —…

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Babs Horton

Babs Horton is an award-winning novelist. Her first book A Jarful of Angels (Simon & Schuster, 2003) won the Pendleton…

Paul Howarth
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Paul Howarth

Paul Howarth is an award-winning author and former lawyer. His first novel, Only Killers and Thieves (HarperCollins and Pushkin Press)…

Zoe Howe
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Zoë Howe

Zoë Howe’s books span the worlds of music, culture and the occult. A strong advocate for women and cultural figures…

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Linda Hoy

Once upon a time there was an author who wrote many, many books for young people — books about runaway…

Kate Hubbard
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Kate Hubbard

Kate Hubbard began her writing career as a children’s author, of fiction and nonfiction: two short biographies, of Queen Victoria…

Mark Hudson
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Mark Hudson

Mark Hudson’s first book,Our Grandmothers’ Drums, describing a year spent in a remote Gambian village, won the Thomas Cook Award…

Robert Hudson
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Robert Hudson

Robert Hudson is an award-winning dramatist, novelist and comedy writer. He has co-written musicals about Russian propaganda, AI and Climate…

Kathryn Hughes
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Kathryn Hughes

Kathryn Hughes is a nonfiction writer, specialising in the nineteenth century. Her first book, which was based on her PhD,…

Sian Hughes by Stretton Studios
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Sian Hughes

Siân Hughes is a poet and novelist who lives in her home village of Tilston in South Cheshire, where her…

Nick Hunt by Esther May Campbell
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Nick Hunt

Nick Hunt is a travel writer and novelist. Much of his writing is inspired by long journeys on foot. His…

Adriana Hunter
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Adriana Hunter

Adriana Hunter is an award-winning translator of French. Since ‘discovering’ the first book she was to translate in 1998, she…

Megan Hunter
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Megan Hunter

Megan Hunter is a prizewinning novelist, poet and screenwriter. Her first novel, The End We Start From, a story of…

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Shahrukh Husain

Shahrukh Husain writes fiction and non-fiction for adults and children. She also writes screenplays and the occasional play. Her adult…

Aamer Hussein
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Aamer Hussein

Aamer Hussein was born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan, but has lived in Britain since the 1970s. He studied at…

|Alexander Hutchison
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Alexander Hutchison

Alexander Hutchison is a poet and translator who writes in English and Scots. He was born and brought up in…

Liz Hyder by Ashleigh Cadet
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Liz Hyder

Liz Hyder is an award-winning, acclaimed novelist for both adults and younger readers. Her first novel Bearmouth (Pushkin Press, 2019),…

MJ Hyland
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MJ Hyland

M. J. Hyland is a multi-award-winning novelist, essayist and short-story writer. Shortlisted for the Man Booker prize and winner of…

Elin ap Hywel
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Elin ap Hywel

Elin ap Hywel is a poet, translator and editor who works in Welsh and English. She was the RLF’s first…