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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…
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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Isabel Ashdown
Isabel Ashdown is the author of ten novels, most recently Weathering (Orion, 2023). In writing – and reading – she…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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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…
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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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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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Josephine Balmer
Josephine Balmer is a poet and translator. Her works include the Bloodaxe publications – Sappho: Poems and Fragments, short-listed for…
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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…
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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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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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Sebastian Barker
Sebastian Barker was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1997. He was also chairman of the…
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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,…
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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…
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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)…
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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…
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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.…
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Clare Bayley
Clare Bayley’s plays explore contemporary political stories through the frame of human relationships. They include Blue Sky, about the CIA’s…