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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.

Carl MacDougall
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Carl MacDougall

Carl MacDougall has written three prize-winning novels, four pamphlets and five collections of short stories, two works of non-fiction and…

Denis MacEoin
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Denis MacEoin

Denis MacEoin was born in Belfast in 1949, where he was taught English by the poet Michael Longley. In 1967,…

Martin MacInnes|Martin MacInnes
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Martin MacInnes

Martin MacInnes’s debut novel, Infinite Ground (Atlantic, 2016), was published to wide critical acclaim, appearing on many best-of-year lists, being…

Niki Mackay
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Niki Mackay

Niki Mackay is a novelist and short-story writer specialising in the darker areas of fiction. She has written many books…

Garry MacKenzie
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Garry MacKenzie

Garry MacKenzie is a prizewinning poet and nonfiction writer whose work focuses on landscape and the environment. His nonfiction book…

Rory MacLean
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Rory MacLean

Rory MacLean is one of Britain’s most expressive and adventurous nonfiction writers. His books – which have been translated into…

Alison MacLeod
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Alison MacLeod

Alison MacLeod is a leading novelist and short story writer, with a particular interest in the porous boundaries between realist…

|Kona Macphee
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Kona Macphee

Kona Macphee is a poet and self-described ‘thingwright’ who grew up in Australia and now lives in Perthshire. She received…

Richard Madden
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Richard Madden

Richard Madden is an award-winning travel writer and author who has written, co-written or ghost-written eight books. These include two…

Sarah Maguire
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Sarah Maguire

Sarah Maguire’s highly-acclaimed collections of poems included Spilt Milk (Secker, 1991) The Invisible Mender (Jonathan Cape, 1997) and The Florist’s at…

Harry Man
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Harry Man

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Harry Man is an award-winning poet, playwright and translator. His work has been published in newspapers and literary journals nationally…

Abigail Mann (Avis) by Natasha Merchant
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Abigail Mann

Abigail Mann is a novelist and writer of fiction, short stories, and nonfiction, with humour often an identifying feature of…

Michael Mann by Anita Chaudhuri
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Michael Mann

Michael Mann is an award-winning children’s author of magical middle-grade novels. His debut Ghostcloud (Hachette, 2021) was a Waterstones’ best…

Jack Mapanje
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Jack Mapanje

Jack Mapanje is a poet, linguist and human rights activist. His published books of poetry include: Of Chameleons and Gods…

Ian Marchant
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Ian Marchant

Ian Marchant is a writer and performer. He has published two novels, In Southern Waters (1999) and The Battle For…

Lydia Marchant by Matthew Cooper Photography
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Lydia Marchant

Lydia Marchant is a script writer for stage, screen and audio. Her debut full-length play Mumsy, about parenting on a…

Kathryn Maris
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Kathryn Maris

Kathryn Maris is a poet who, in 2019, won the Ivan Juritz prize for creative experiment for a portion of…

David Mark
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David Mark

After fifteen years as a specialist crime journalist, I accomplished my long-held goal of securing a publishing deal. That novel,…

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Edward Marriott

Edward Marriott is a writer, psychotherapist and a member of the clinic staff of the Institute of Psychoanalysis. His books…

Zoe Marriott
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Zoë Marriott

Zoë Marriott is the critically acclaimed author of eight feminist, diverse novels for young adults, which draw strongly on world…

Robyn Marsack
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Robyn Marsack

Robyn Marsack published her first two books – a selection of Edmund Blunden’s poems and a critical study of Louis…

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Jan Marsh

Jan Marsh is a biographer specialising in artists and writers. She has written extensively on the Pre-Raphaelite circle, including a…

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Alex Martin

Alex Martin writes fiction and history. His five novels for children, beginning with Boris the Tomato, took big themes, such…

Andrew Martin
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Andrew Martin

Andrew Martin is a prolific author of novels and non-fiction books. Most of his fiction is in the historical crime…