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Karen Wallace
Karen Wallace has written over three hundred books for children, both fiction and nonfiction, from picture books, through beginner readers…
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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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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Michelene Wandor
Michelene Wandor is a playwright, poet, fiction writer and musician. She is the first woman playwright to have had a…
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Andy Ward
Andrew Ward was the author or co-author of almost 30 sports books, including Football Nation (with John Williams, 2009), Kicking…
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Sarah Wardle
Sarah Wardle was born in London in 1969, educated at Cheltenham Ladies’ College, read Literae Humaniores at Lincoln College, Oxford,…
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Robin Waterfield
Robin Waterfield is a non-fiction and academic writer, whose numerous titles include; Hidden Depths: The Story of Hypnosis, Macmillan, 2002 (Spanish…
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Kathy Watson
Kathy Watson is a biographer. Her first book, The Crossing (Hodder Headline, 2000), told the story of Matthew Webb, the…
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Lee Weatherly
Lee Weatherly is an author of children’s and young adult fiction. Her first book, Child X (David Fickling Books, 2002),…
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Lyn Webster Wilde
Lyn Webster Wilde writes non-fiction and fiction, and something that walks the line between the two. On the Trail of…
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Gavin Weightman
Gavin Weightman is the author of more than 20 books including The Frozen Water Trade, Signor Marconi’s Magic Box and…
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Shelley Weiner
Shelley Weiner is an acclaimed novelist, short-story writer and journalist who, over the years, has established a reputation as an…
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Chris Westwood
Chris Westwood was born and brought up in west Yorkshire, the son of a coal miner and an English teacher.…
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Sara Wheeler
Sara Wheeler is a bestselling and award-winning writer of ten nonfiction books about travel and travellers. They include Terra Incognita:…
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Karl Whitney
Karl Whitney is a writer of nonfiction. He is interested in stories from the present that he can reconstruct through…
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Amanda Whittington
Amanda Whittington is a playwright. She is perhaps best known for Be My Baby, which is set in 1963 and…
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Sheena Wilkinson
Described in The Irish Times as ‘one of our foremost writers for young people’, Sheena Wilkinson writes novels and short…
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Sarah Williams
S. W. Williams has published books under three different names, each of which marks a different phase of her writing…
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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…
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Jackie Wills
Jackie Wills is a poet. Her work has been described as darkly British, surreal and elegant. While many of her…
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Jim C Wilson
Jim C. Wilson is a poet. Since 1983 his work has been published widely in anthologies, magazines, journals and newspapers,…
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James Wilson
James Wilson is a novelist whose work has been translated into nine languages. His four novels to date (all published…
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Anne Wilson
Anne Wilson is an award-winning scriptwriter, journalist and careers counsellor. After doing an MSc and a PhD in social psychology…
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Anna Wilson
Anna Wilson is a writer for both children and adults. She has written over fifty books for children ranging from…
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Morgen Witzel
Morgen Witzel is the author or coauthor of twenty-eight books and several thousand articles, essays, reviews, commentaries and other short…