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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.

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…

Bridget Deane
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Bridget Deane

Bridget Deane is a working-class, disabled writer based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne whose work spans television, film, theatre and radio. Her writing…

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…

Will Eaves credit John Cairns
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Will Eaves

Will Eaves is a novelist, poet, editor and composer. His first three novels (The Oversight, 2001; Nothing to Be Afraid…

Caroline Eden credit Effie Ioannou
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Caroline Eden

Caroline Eden is an author, journalist and book critic who for the past fifteen years has specialised in writing about…

Robert Evans credit Johan Persson
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Robert Evans

Robert Alan Evans is a playwright, director and deviser whose work moves between theatre for adults and young people, dance,…

Jenni Fagan
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Jenni Fagan

Jenni Fagan is an acclaimed novelist, poet and screenwriter. She is the author of five novels, one nonfiction memoir and…

Nizrana Farook
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Nizrana Farook

Nizrana Farook is a bestselling children’s author of Middle-grade adventure stories. Her debut novel, The Girl Who Stole an Elephant…

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…

Andrew Forster-Holland credit Lindsey Forster-Holland
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Andrew Forster-Holland

Andrew Forster-Holland is a poet and occasional critic and prose writer. He is driven to make literature and writing accessible…

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…

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…

Harry Josephine Giles credit Rich Dyson
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Josephine Giles

Harry Josephine Giles is a poet and performer from Orkney, now living in Leith, Edinburgh. A Scots and Gaelic speaker,…

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…

Kate Harrison
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Kate Harrison

Kate Harrison is a bestselling author of 23 novels and nonfiction books, writing under her own name and the pen…

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…

Nick Hunt by Esther May Campbell
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Nick Hunt

Nick Hunt is a travel writer and novelist. Much of his writing is inspired by long journeys on foot. His…

Liz Hyder by Ashleigh Cadet
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Liz Hyder

Liz Hyder is an award-winning, acclaimed novelist for both adults and younger readers. Her first novel Bearmouth (Pushkin Press, 2019),…

MJ Hyland
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MJ Hyland

M. J. Hyland is a multi-award-winning novelist, essayist and short-story writer. Shortlisted for the Man Booker prize and winner of…

Mark Illis|Dipo Agboluaje|Louise Foxcroft|Mark Illis
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Mark Illis

Mark Illis writes novels for adults and teenagers, and has written extensively for television. His new novel for teens, Running…

Kathleen Jamie credit Robin Gillanders
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Kathleen Jamie

Kathleen Jamie is a poet and essayist. She has lived almost all her life on Scotland’s east coast, and engagement…