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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…
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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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…
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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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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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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,…
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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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Laura Barnett
Laura Barnett is a bestselling author interested in the way fiction can take the world we know, and our own…
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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…
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Sally Bayley
Sally Bayley is a non-fiction writer whose work explores the relationship between biography, autobiography, memoir and literary fiction. Her book,…
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Laura Beatty
Laura Beatty is a writer of both fiction and nonfiction. Her first book was a biography of Lillie Langtry. Her…
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William Bedford
William Bedford’s poetry, short stories and essays have appeared in magazines around the world, including the Daily Telegraph, Encounter, Harpers…
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Martyn Bedford
Martyn Bedford is an award-winning writer of fiction for adults and teenagers. His novels have been translated into 13 languages…
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Jo Bell
Jo Bell is a poet, pundit and broadcaster. Her first career was in professional archaeology, and she continues to search…
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Alexandra Benedict
A.K. Benedict is a prizewinning writer of poetry, short stories, novels and scripts, specialising in speculative fiction. Her first book,…
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David Benedictus
David Benedictus was educated at Eton, Balliol College, Oxford, and the State University of Iowa; his first job was as…
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Marina Benjamin
Marina Benjamin worked as a journalist before turning to non-fiction and, later, memoir. She has served as arts editor of…
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Sophia Bennett
Sophia Bennett is an award-winning children’s novelist. Her first book, Threads (Chicken House, 2009) won the Times/Chicken House children’s fiction…
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Andrea Bennett
Andrea Bennett is a novelist who also writes short stories, short plays, flash fiction and nonfiction. Her first novel, Galina…
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Peter Benson
Peter Benson is a novelist and dramatist. His first novel The Levels was a bucolic love story, his second A…
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Rachel Bentham
Rachel Bentham loves writing both prose and script. Sometimes she tinkers with poetry. She is an experienced radio writer, having…
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Marcelle Bernstein
Marcelle Bernstein is an internationally bestselling novelist, non-fiction writer and journalist who finds each discipline nourishes the others. She relishes…