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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.

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…

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…

Inbali Iserles
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Inbali Iserles

Inbali Iserles is an award-winning author of children’s books. Her writing is inspired by a love of the natural world…

Andy Jackson
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Andy Jackson

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Andy Jackson is a poet and editor of several anthologies. His first collection The Assassination Museum was published in 2010…

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Doug Johnstone

Doug Johnstone has worked as a freelance arts journalist since 1999, primarily covering music and literature, and he is currently…

Nicolette-Jones
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Nicolette Jones

Nicolette Jones is a writer, journalist and broadcaster who has worked for all the national broadsheets and the book-trade press.…

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…

Sally Kindberg
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Sally Kindberg

Sally Kindberg is an author, illustrator and comic strip maker who has written and illustrated more than thirty children’s nonfiction…

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Bill Kirton

Bill Kirton is an award-winning author of novels, short stories, stage and radio plays and five books on study, work…

Tom Lee
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Tom Lee

Tom Lee is a short-story writer and novelist. His critically acclaimed debut novel The Alarming Palsy of James Orr, published…

Amber Lee Dodd
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Amber Lee Dodd

Amber Lee Dodd is an award-winning children’s author and short-story writer. Her work includes the critically acclaimed novels We Are…

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Paul Mason

Paul Mason is a nonfiction writer specializing in high-interest material for children. Judging from the speed with which youthful visitors…

Andrew Miller
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Andrew Miller

Andrew Miller is the author of eight novels, from Ingenious Pain in 1997 to Now We Shall Be Entirely Free…

Stephen Mollett
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Stephen Mollett

Stephen Mollett is a dramatist and fiction writer. He has written eight plays for BBC Radio 4 in a variety…

Polly Morland
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Polly Morland

Polly Morland is a writer and documentary maker. She is the author of four narrative non-fiction books, including The Society…

Mark Morris
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Mark Morris

Mark Morris is an award-winning writer of novels, novellas, short stories and audio drama scripts, specializing in speculative fiction. The…

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Vayu Naidu

Sita’s Ascent (Penguin, 2013), a novel, was a fictional discourse about women in exile and was nominated for the Commonwealth…

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Stephanie Norgate

Stephanie Norgate is a playwright and poet. Her first play, The Greatest Gift, broadcast on BBC R4, won a Radio…

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Lizzie Nunnery

Lizzie Nunnery’s work as a playwright has often explored historical settings and migrant characters. Her first play Intemperance (Liverpool Everyman, 2007), was…

Donny O'Rourke
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Donny O’Rourke

Donny O’Rourke’s ten poetry collections, the three CDs featuring his song lyrics and his television films and works for the…

Leila Rasheed
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Leila Rasheed

Leila Rasheed writes literature for children and teenagers. Her first book, Chips, Beans and Limousines, was published by Usborne in…

Marnie Riches
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Marnie Riches

Marnie Riches is an award-winning, critically-acclaimed author, published in several genres. Her first books to appear in print were historical…

Carina Rodney
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Carina Rodney

Carina Rodney is an award-winning writer for stage, screen and radio. Her theatre work has toured nationally and includes original scripts,…

Cynthia Rogerson
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Cynthia Rogerson

Cynthia Rogerson is the author of five literary novels, a memoir, and a collection of short stories and was shortlisted…