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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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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Roy Williams

Roy began writing plays in 1990. In 2000 he was the joint-winner of the George Devine award and in 2001…

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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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Claire Williamson

Claire Williamson is an award-winning poet and creative writer. Her latest poetry collection, Visiting the Minotaur (Seren, 2018), was a…

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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…

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Philip Womack

Philip Womack is a critically acclaimed author of children’s fiction infused with myths and legends. He is interested in how…

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Alex Wong

Alex Wong is a poet and literary critic with an increasing interest in the medium of essayistic prose. He has…

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James Woodall

James Woodall’s first book, In Search of the Firedance (1992), tells the story of flamenco. It remains the leading account…

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Christopher Woodall

Christopher Woodall’s writing springs largely from an initially inconsequential year-long encounter with a group of nightshift workers in south-east France…

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