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Vayu Naidu
Sita’s Ascent (Penguin, 2013), a novel, was a fictional discourse about women in exile and was nominated for the Commonwealth…
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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Patrick Ness
Patrick Ness is a novelist and short story writer. He knows this because he’s published a novel and a short…
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Courttia Newland
Courttia Newland was born in West London where he still lives and which inspires much of his writing. He is…
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Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin
Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin is the first Irish-language RLF Fellow. She is an acclaimed singer, songwriter and author, specialising in Irish-language…
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Barbara Norden
Bara Norden is a writer of plays, many of which tend towards the comic and fantastical. Her first commissioned play,…
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Stephanie Norgate
Stephanie Norgate is a playwright and poet. Her first play, The Greatest Gift, broadcast on BBC R4, won a Radio…
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Lizzie Nunnery
Lizzie Nunnery’s work as a playwright has often explored historical settings and migrant characters. Her first play Intemperance (Liverpool Everyman, 2007), was…
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Alexandra Nye
Alex Nye is an award-winning writer. Her first novel Chill (Floris, 2006) won the 2007 Royal Mail Scottish Children’s award,…
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Sanjida O'Connell
Sanjida O’Connell is an award-winning novelist and non-fiction writer. Her forthcoming novel is a psychological thriller called Bone by Bone,…
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Catherine O'Flynn
Catherine O’Flynn is a novelist. Her debut novel What Was Lost (Tindal Street, 2007) won the Costa First Novel award,…
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Donny O'Rourke
Donny O’Rourke’s ten poetry collections, the three CDs featuring his song lyrics and his television films and works for the…
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Sally O’Reilly
Sally O’Reilly is a novelist specialising in historical fiction with a particular interest in marginalised voices. Her first two novels…
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Simon Okotie
Simon Okotie is a fiction writer and essayist. He is the author of Whatever Happened to Harold Absalon?, In the…
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Peter Oswald
Peter Oswald is a playwright, poet and performer. He was writer in residence at Shakespeare’s Globe. Three of his plays…
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James Owen
James Owen is an author and a journalist. His first book A Serpent in Eden (Little, Brown, 2005) told the…
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Julianne Pachico
Julianne Pachico is a novelist and short-story writer. She was born in Cambridge, England, and grew up in Cali, Colombia.…
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Ruth Padel
Ruth Padel (FRSL, FRZL) is an internationally published writer of poetry, novels, nonfiction and criticism with close links to Greece,…
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Louise Page
Louise Page worked primarily as a dramatist but also published a novel and short stories. Her stage work included Salonika…
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William Palmer
William Palmer is a novelist, short-story writer and poet. His first novel The Good Republic (Secker and Warburg, 1990) deals…
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Nii Ayikwei Parkes
Nii Ayikwei Parkes is a writer, editor, socio-cultural commentator and broadcaster. A 2007 recipient of Ghana’s national ACRAG award for…
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Lisa Parry
Lisa Parry is a playwright, screenwriter and audio writer. Her play NOT was recently read at The Other Place, Stratford,…
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Sylvia Patterson
Sylvia Patterson is an award-winning author and journalist whose 2016 memoir I’m Not with the Band (Sphere), tells the story…