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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.

Sarah Salway
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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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Eva Salzman

Eva Salzman’s books include Double Crossing: new & selected poems (Bloodaxe, 2004), which was awarded a Poetry Book Society recommendation,…

Diane Samuels
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Diane Samuels

Diane grew up in Liverpool in the 1960s and 70s and now lives in London. Her play Kindertransport won the…

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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)…

Caroline Sanderson author photo
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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…

Andrew Sant
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Andrew Sant

Andrew Sant was born in London and educated there and in Melbourne after his family emigrated to Australia. He has…

Luiza Sauma
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Luiza Sauma

Luiza Sauma is a critically acclaimed Brazilian-British novelist and journalist. Her fiction plays with genre and form, and examines memory,…

Julian Sayarer
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Julian Sayarer

Julian Sayarer is the author of five books written at the roadsides of the world. His debut book Life Cycles told the…

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Paul Sayer

Paul Sayer is a former psychiatric nurse whose first novel The Comforts of Madness was published in 1988, winning the…

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Cherise Saywell

Cherise Saywell is a novelist and short-story writer. She was born and brought up in Australia and has lived in…

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Ann Schlee

Ann Schlee is a novelist whose work includes Ask Me No Questions (1976, and recently reprinted in paper back), The…

Ros Schwartz
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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…

Pamela Scobie
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Pamela Scobie

Pamela Scobie’s twin passions for writing and performing came together in 1984 when she was invited, on the strength of…

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Jeremy Seal

Jeremy Seal writes non-fiction books which combine travel and history, often taking the culture of Turkey – a life-long interest…

Jamie Lee Searle
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Jamie Lee Searle

Winchester

Jamie Lee Searle is a literary translator, writer and mentor. She translates German-language and Portuguese-language writing into English for publishing…

Helen Sedgwick by Michael Gallacher
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Helen Sedgwick

Helen Sedgwick is a cross-genre author of literary fiction, science fiction and folk horror. She writes about human connection across…

Ian Seed
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Ian Seed

Lancaster

Ian Seed is an award-winning poet, translator, short-story writer, essayist and editor. According to the poet and critic John Ashbery,…

Rachel Seiffert
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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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Esther Selsdon

Esther Selsdon is a novelist, travel writer and journalist. She writes for film, radio and many of the UK’s broadsheet…

Cath Senker
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Cath Senker

An award-winning non-fiction writer and editor, Cath is also a university and ESOL teacher. Originally a project manager and editor…

Miranda Seymour
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Miranda Seymour

Miranda Seymour is a celebrated biographer and prizewinning memoir writer. Her books include lives of Robert Graves, Ada Lovelace, Mary…

Sara Shaarawi by Beth Chalmers
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Sara Shaarawi

Sara Shaarawi is a playwright from Cairo, based in Glasgow. She’s worked with several theatre companies around the UK: the…

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Jo Shapcott

Jo Shapcott won the Forward Prize for her collection, My Life Asleep, in 1999. For two years from 1998 she…

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Stephen Sharkey

Stephen Sharkey is a playwright. He grew up in Liverpool and then studied classics at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Throughout…