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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.

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Kathleen Jones

Born and brought up on a hill farm in the north of England, Kathleen Jones spent several years in Africa…

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Nicolette Jones

Nicolette Jones is a writer, journalist and occasional broadcaster who has also written about children’s books for the Sunday Times…

Tobias Jones
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Tobias Jones

Tobias Jones was born and brought up in Somerset. After working on the London Review of Books and the Independent…

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Vanessa Jones

Vanessa Jones is a fiction writer of novels, short stories and screenplays, but she began her writing career with a…

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Alison Joseph

Alison Joseph is a London-based novelist and radio dramatist.  She is the author of a series of detective novels featuring…

Anjali Joseph
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Anjali Joseph

Anjali Joseph is a prizewinning novelist. She is interested in how art can attune a reader to experience more joy.…

Lauren J Joseph by Eivind Hansen
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Lauren Joseph

Lauren J. Joseph is a novelist and playwright working with notions of social class, gender identity, religious faith and the…

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Morag Joss

Morag Joss began writing in 1996 when her first short story won an award in a national competition. Starting to…

Marcy Kahan
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Marcy Kahan

Marcy Kahan is an award-winning radio and theatre playwright and screenwriter. Her plays include: 20 Cigarettes (Soho Theatre, 2007), a…

Peter Kalu by Fereshteh Mozaffari
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Peter Kalu

My short stories range in style from the realist to the surreal to the carnivalesque and can be found in…

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Kapka Kassabova

Kapka Kassabova is a travel writer, poet and novelist. Her childhood memoir Street Without a Name (Portobello, 2008) was shortlisted…

Marianne Kavanagh
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Marianne Kavanagh

Marianne Kavanagh is an author and journalist. Her first two novels were translated into eight languages and sold all over…

Judith Kazantzis
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Judith Kazantzis

Judith Kazantzis is a British poet who is also a fiction-writer and printmaker. She lives in East Sussex. Her first…

|Basir Kazmi
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Basir Sultan Kazmi, MBE

Born in Pakistan in 1955, Basir studied and taught English at the Government College in Lahore. He edited Ravi (1974)…

|Brian Keaney
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Brian Keaney

Brian Keaney is an award-winning children’s author. He has written 20 novels for young people, which have been translated into…

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John Keay

John Keay has been a professional writer, scholar and traveller for more than 40 years. Once a political journalist (principally…

Greg Keen
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Gregory Keen

Greg Keen is a crime writer with a particular interest in urban noir. Greg won the Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger…

Helen Kelly
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Helen Kelly

Helen Kelly has written theatre for casts of one and casts of sixty, including a number of pieces for the…

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Jim Kelly

Jim Kelly was born in 1957, and is the son of a Scotland Yard detective. His first crime mystery The…

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David Kennedy

David Kennedy was a poet and editor and a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Hull. He…

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Mimi Khalvati

Mimi Khalvati is a poet and creative-writing tutor. She was born in Tehran, Iran. At the age of six, she…

Taran Khan by Jonathan Page
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Taran Khan

Taran N. Khan is an award-winning nonfiction writer. Her first book, Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul, was published by Penguin Random…

Matt Killeen
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Matt Killeen

Matt Killeen is a bestselling author of historical fiction for young adults. His first novel, Orphan Monster Spy (Usborne, 2018),…

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Gabrielle Kimm

Gabrielle Kimm is the author of three historical novels. The first His Last Duchess (Sphere, 2010) is set in 16th-century…