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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,…
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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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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Julia Pascal
Julia Pascal is a playwright whose dramas mainly explore war, exile and inherited trauma. The granddaughter of Romanian Jews, who…
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Ashok Patel
Ashok Patel is a Birmingham-based writer of short stories and scripts for stage, radio and film. His BBC Radio 4…
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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…
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Mary Paulson-Ellis
Mary Paulson-Ellis is an award-winning novelist writing across the genres of crime, historical and literary fiction. Her critically acclaimed debut,…
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Jenny Pausacker
Jenny Pausacker has worked full-time as a freelance writer since 1980. During that time she has published 67 novels, seven…
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Lara Pawson
Lara Pawson began her writing life in journalism and nonfiction, but has moved into fiction. Spent Light (CB editions, 2024),…
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Susannah Pearse
Susannah Pearse is a writer and composer working mainly in theatre and radio. She has co-written musical adaptations of Around…
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Tina Pepler
Tina Pepler began her writing career as a radio dramatist and still loves that medium, though she is now just…
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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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Pascale Petit
Pascale Petit is a poet who was born in Paris and lives in London. Her collections include Fauverie (2014), What…
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Mario Petrucci
Mario Petrucci is a poet and educator of international standing, and a leading exponent for site-specific and public poetry in…
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Mike Phillips
Mike Phillips was born in Georgetown, Guyana. He came to Britain as a child, and went to school and university…
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Katherine Pierpoint
Katherine Pierpoint’s poetry collection, Truffle Beds (Faber, 1995), has won various awards, and was recommended by the Poetry Book Society. Her work…
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John Pilkington
John Pilkington is a novelist, children’s author and playwright. He has published numerous historical novels both here and in the…
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Keiron Pim
Keiron Pim is the author of two widely acclaimed biographies, Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth (Granta, 2022) and…
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Clare Pollard
Clare Pollard was born in Bolton in 1978. Her first collection of poetry The Heavy-Petting Zoo (Bloodaxe, 1998) was written…