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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.

Stephen Romer
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Stephen Romer

Stephen Romer is a poet, a translator, a critic and an editor. His fifth collection, which is also a Selected Poems,…

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Anne Rooney

Anne Rooney writes fiction for children, and non-fiction for children and adults. She has published more than 150 books. She…

Chris Rose
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C.D. Rose

Todmorden

C. D. Rose is a writer of fiction. Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea is a collection of short stories…

DIlys Rose
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Dilys Rose

Dilys Rose was born in Glasgow and has lived in Edinburgh for most of her adult life. She is a…

Leone Ross credit Hayley Benoit
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Leone Ross

Leone Ross FRSL is a novelist and short story writer, working in hybrid forms: literary fantasy; authentic erotica; the social…

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Virginia Rounding

Virginia Rounding is an author and book critic, specialising in Russia and the history of women. Her most recent book was…

Anne Rouse
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Anne Rouse

Anne Rouse’s poetry has appeared in many periodicals, such as the Independent, Observer, Atlantic Monthly and TLS. Both of her…

Pauline Rowe
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Pauline Rowe

I am a writer and poet. I have nine poetry publications and my collection The Weight of Snow (Maytree Press,…

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Anthony Rudolf

Anthony Rudolf is an autobiographer, poet, literary critic, editor and translator. He has also written fiction and art criticism. His…

Leigh Russell
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Leigh Russell

Leigh Russell is the author of three acclaimed series of crime novels featuring British detectives Geraldine Steel and Ian Peterson,…

Bethany Rutter
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Bethany Rutter

Bethany Rutter is the author of contemporary romance novels for adults and young people. Her background as a plus-size fashion…

Rebecca Ryan
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Rebecca Ryan

Rebecca Ryan is an author of contemporary, uplifting fiction. Her first book, My (extra) Ordinary Life was published by Simon…

William Ryan
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William Ryan

William Ryan is the author of five novels, including the Captain Korolev series set in 1930s Moscow. They have been…

Sid Sagar credit Harry Livingstone
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Sid Sagar

Sid Sagar is an actor, playwright and screenwriter. His play Biting Point (Faber, 2025) explores road rage and race and…

Amaal Said
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Amaal Said

Southwark, London

Amaal Said is a Danish-born Somali photographer and poet, based in London. Her photographs have been featured in Vogue, The…

Lawrence Sail
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Lawrence Sail

Lawrence Sail has published thirteen collections of poems, including Waking Dreams: New & Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2010), a Poetry…

Melinda Salisbury
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Melinda Salisbury

Melinda Salisbury is the author of more than a dozen books for young adults, with a focus on speculative coming-of-age…

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,…