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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…
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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Mary Cooper
Mary Cooper is an award-winning writer whose work embraces theatre, radio, television, film, digital narratives and podcasts. She has written…
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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…
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Ben Cottam
Ben Cottam is a prolific writer of radio adaptations, comedies and dramas. He is best known for the BBC Radio…
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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…
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Sophie Duffy
Sophie Duffy is an award-winning novelist who writes about the complications and joys of family relationships. As a Generation X-er,…
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Sharon Duggal
Sharon Duggal writes novels and short stories. Her second novel, Should We Fall Behind (Bluemoose, 2020), was shortlisted for the Royal Society…
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Jonathan Edwards
Newport
Jonathan Edwards’s first collection of poems, My Family and Other Superheroes (Seren, 2014) received the Costa Poetry award and the…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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Alys Fowler
Alys Fowler is a gardener and an award-winning journalist who has written for the weekend Guardian about gardening and the…
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Ella Frears
Ella Frears’ collection Shine, Darling (Offord Road Books, 2020) was a Poetry Book Society recommendation and was shortlisted for both…
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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…
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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…
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Juliet Gilkes Romero
Lewisham, London
Juliet Gilkes Romero is an award-winning writer for stage and screen. She is the recipient of the 2020 Alfred Fagon…
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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…
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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…
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Teresa Heapy
Teresa Heapy is an award-winning children’s book author. She has written nine picture books including Loved to Bits (about a battered teddy…
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Becca Heddle
Becca Heddle is an award-winning writer of books for children. Mainly published in primary school reading schemes by Oxford University…
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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…
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Sarah Hilary
Sarah Hilary is the author of six books in the D.I. Marnie Rome series. Her debut, Someone Else’s Skin, won the…
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Charlie Hill
Charlie Hill is a writer of novels, short stories and memoir, whose work employs a variety of formal approaches. His…