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Syd Moore
Syd Moore is an acclaimed novelist and short-story writer whose work focusses on the historic witch hunts in Essex. Her…
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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Shyama Perera
Shyama Perera left school at 16 and got a job in the London Transport typing pool. At 17, she got…
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Jini Reddy
Jini Reddy is an award-winning writer and journalist. She is the author of Wanderland (Bloomsbury, 2020), shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for…
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Anna Reynolds
Anna Reynolds is a playwright, fiction writer, drama writing coach, editor, mentor, writing facilitator and arts project producer. She has…
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Amaal Said
Southwark, London
Amaal Said is a Danish-born Somali photographer and poet, based in London. Her photographs have been featured in Vogue, The…
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Sarah Salway
Sarah Salway is a novelist, journalist and poet. She’s the author of three novels – Something Beginning With, Tell Me…
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Meg Sanders
Meg Sanders is a writer of both fiction and non-fiction. Her eight novels (co-written with Annie Ashworth as Annie Sanders)…
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Caroline Sanderson
Caroline Sanderson is a writer and book journalist. She began her career as a Waterstones bookseller and then worked as…
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Ros Schwartz
Ros Schwartz is an award-winning translator from French. Acclaimed for her new version of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince…
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Rachel Seiffert
Rachel Seiffert has published four novels, A Boy in Winter, The Dark Room, Afterwards, and The Walk Home, and one…
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Clare Shaw, (they/them)
I’m a keen advocate for writing as a tool of social and personal change. During my six years with Writing…
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Shelley Silas
Shelley Silas writes for theatre, radio and television, and has also written a number of short stories. Her stage plays…
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Umi Sinha
Newhaven, East Sussex
I wanted to be a writer from the age of six. My childhood home on a remote naval base in…
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Jonathan Tulloch
Jonathan Tulloch is a prizewinning novelist and naturalist. He writes the Natures Notes for the Times and has published ten…
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Wendy Wallace
Wendy Wallace writes novels exploring the lives of Victorian women. Her first, The Painted Bridge, was set in a women’s…
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Stuart Walton
Stuart Walton is a cultural historian, critical theorist and novelist. His widely acclaimed comparative study, Out of It: A Cultural…
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Sheena Wilkinson
Described in The Irish Times as ‘one of our foremost writers for young people’, Sheena Wilkinson writes novels for children…
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Sarah Williams
Sarah Williams has published books under two different names, each marking a different phase of her writing career. As Sarah…
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Heidi Williamson
Norwich
Heidi Williamson is an award-winning poet and creative-writing tutor. Her first collection, Electric Shadow (Bloodaxe, 2011) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation…
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Philip Womack
Philip Womack is a critically acclaimed author of children’s fiction infused with myths and legends. He is interested in how…
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Anna Woodford
Anna Woodford is the author of six poetry books and pamphlets: EVERYTHING IS PRESENT (Salt, 2025), Changing Room (Salt, 2018),…
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Tamar Yellin
Tamar Yellin is a multi-award-winning novelist and short story writer. In 2007, she was the inaugural recipient of the international…