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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.

Peter Arnott
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Peter Arnott

Born in Glasgow in 1962, Peter is the writer of many professionally produced stage plays starting with White Rose (Traverse…

Chris Arthur
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Chris Arthur

Now living on the east coast of Scotland, Chris Arthur was born in Belfast and grew up in Northern Ireland…

Isabel Ashdown|Isabel Ashdown
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Isabel Ashdown

Isabel Ashdown is the author of ten novels, most recently Weathering (Orion, 2023). In writing – and reading – she…

|Helena Attlee
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Helena Attlee

Helena Attlee is a well-established non-fiction author and feature writer. Although best known for her works on Italy and the…

James Attlee
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James Attlee

James Attlee is a widely published writer specialising in creative nonfiction, travel and art. His book Isolarion: A Different Oxford…

Ian Ayris
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Ian Ayris

Ian Ayris is the author of three novels, a novella, and over forty short stories. The first of his trilogy…

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…

|Rosemary Bailey
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Rosemary Bailey

Rosemary Bailey was born in Halifax, Yorkshire. She was an award-winning travel writer and journalist, and an experienced editor and…

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Catherine Bailey

Catherine Bailey is a television producer and a bestselling writer of non-fiction. Before embarking on her publishing career, she produced…

Melissa Bailey
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Melissa Bailey

Melissa Bailey is a historical fiction writer. Her first novel, The Medici Mirror, is a tale of murder, sorcery and…

|Roy Bainton
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Roy Bainton

Roy Bainton has worked in journalism, radio and TV, and is the author of 12 books, mostly non-fiction, including biography,…

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Phil Baker

Phil Baker spent long and gloomy years writing a thesis on Samuel Beckett, but cheered up after he published it…

Nigel Baldwin
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Nigel Baldwin

Nigel Baldwin’s work comprises fifteen stage plays including works for the Royal Court Theatre, where he was resident playwright, and…

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Nicola Baldwin

Nicola Baldwin is a playwright and scriptwriter. Her first play Confetti won the 1993 George Devine award and Time Out…

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Josephine Balmer

Josephine Balmer is a poet and translator. Her works include the Bloodaxe publications – Sappho: Poems and Fragments, short-listed for…

Ros Barber
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Ros Barber

Ros Barber is a novelist interested in history/biography and science/technology. Her critically acclaimed verse novel The Marlowe Papers (2012) was…

Sebastian Barker
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Sebastian Barker

Sebastian Barker was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1997. He was also chairman of the…

Raffaella Barker
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Raffaella Barker

Raffaella Barker is a novelist. Her first novel was Come and Tell Me Some Lies (1994). Other novels include A…

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Susan Barker

Susan Barker is a novelist. Her first novel Sayonara Bar (Doubleday, 2005) was set in a hostess bar in Osaka,…

Geoff Barker
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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…

Laura Barnett|Lawrence Sail
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Laura Barnett

Laura Barnett is a bestselling author and teacher of creative writing, interested in the way fiction can take the world…

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)…

Rosamund Bartlett by Vanessa Lowett
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Rosamund Bartlett

As an author, Rosamund Bartlett is best known for her biographies of Chekhov and Tolstoy, for which she drew on…

Craig Baxter
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Craig Baxter

Craig is a dramatist with thirty years of experience writing primarily for the stage but also for screen and radio.…