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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.

Marianne Colbran
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Marianne Colbran

Marianne Colbran is a nonfiction writer and screenwriter/playwright. Having started her career writing for a police show, she is fascinated…

Rowan Coleman
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Rowan Coleman

Rowan Coleman is the internationally bestselling author and screenwriter of more than thirty cross-genre novels and screenplays. Her first novel…

Brian Conaghan
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Brian Conaghan

Brian Conaghan is an award-winning author of ten young adult and middle-grade novels, which have been published in a variety…

Mary Cooper by Alan Hamer
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Mary Cooper

Mary Cooper is an award-winning writer whose work embraces theatre, radio, television, film, digital narratives and podcasts. She has written…

Caroline Corcoran by Dan Bentley
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Caroline Corcoran

Caroline Corcoran is an internationally published Sunday Times bestselling author whose work has been translated into multiple foreign languages and…

Rachael Davis-Featherstone by Aaron Daniel Jacobsen
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Rachael Davis-Featherstone

Rachael Davis-Featherstone is a mixed-raced Black-British multi-award-nominated author. She has published over twenty books ranging from picture books to women’s…

Christy Ducker
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Christy Ducker

Christy Ducker is the author of four poetry books and pamphlets: Messenger (Smith Doorstop, 2017), Heroes (Smith Doorstop, 2016), Skipper…

Joe Dunthorne by Tom Medwell
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Joe Dunthorne

Joe Dunthorne is a poet and novelist. His debut novel, Submarine, was translated into fifteen languages and made into an…

Sabine Durrant
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Sabine Durrant

Sabine Durrant, a former journalist, is the author of seven novels of dark psychological suspense, including Under Your Skin, Remember…

Kenny Emson
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Kenny Emson

Kenny Emson is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. He was born in Essex and his writing mostly concerns itself with…

Suzannah Evans by Joe Horner
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Suzannah Evans

Suzannah Evans is a poet whose work combines climate anxiety and eco-poetry with dark humour and irreverence. Her first book,…

Edmund Fawcett
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Edmund Fawcett

Edmund Fawcett is an author and journalist with a career-long interest in political philosophy and the arts. His books include…

Rosie Fiore-Burt
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Rosie Fiore-Burt

Rosie Fiore-Burt has published eight novels to critical acclaim, including This Year’s Black (Struik), Babies in Waiting (Quercus), After Isabella…

Ele Fountain
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Ele Fountain

Ele Fountain writes contemporary fiction with recurring themes of family, identity and hope. Her books explore subjects which infuse our…

Clare Furniss
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Clare Furniss

Clare Furniss is a bestselling author of novels for young adults. Her books portray complex family relationships and the power…

Caroline Gawn
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Caroline Gawn

Caroline Gawn writes radio drama for BBC Radio 4. Her most frequently repeated radio plays are Fresh From the Coast…

Susannah Gibson
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Susannah Gibson

Susannah Gibson is a historian specialising in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with a particular focus on history of science…

Lesley Glaister
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Lesley Glaister

Lesley Glaister is the author of sixteen novels. Her first, Honour Thy Father (Secker and Warburg, 1990), won Somerset Maugham…

George Green
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George Green

George Green is a historical novelist and short-story writer. His first novel, Hound (Transworld, 2003), is a re-telling of the…

Will Harris by Siqi Li
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Will Harris

Will Harris is a poet, editor and essayist from London. His first book, Mixed-Race Superman (Peninsula Press, 2018), is about…

Rosalind Harvey
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Rosalind Harvey

Rosalind Harvey is a critically-acclaimed literary translator, writer and mentor, focusing on contemporary Latin American and Spanish writing, including Juan…

Caspar Henderson by Dan Cook
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Caspar Henderson

Caspar Henderson is an acclaimed writer of nonfiction whose books have been translated into a dozen languages. His Book of…

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)…

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…