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.
Mark Illis
Mark Illis writes novels for adults and teenagers, and has written extensively for television. His new novel for teens, Running…
Daniel Ingram-Brown
Daniel Ingram-Brown is an award-winning, middle-grade author based in Yorkshire. His book, Bea’s Witch: A Ghostly Coming-of-age Story (Collective Ink…
Rosemary Jenkinson
Rosemary Jenkinson is a short-story writer, playwright, poet, essayist, memoirist and cultural commentator. She particularly loves the short story as…
Lauren Joseph
Lauren J. Joseph is a novelist and playwright working with notions of social class, gender identity, religious faith and the…
Satinder Kaur Chohan
Satinder Kaur Chohan is a writer, primarily of plays and audio dramas, whose stories explore hidden global South Asian worlds…
Helen Kelly
Helen Kelly has written theatre for casts of one and casts of sixty, including a number of pieces for the…
Taran Khan
Taran N. Khan is an award-winning nonfiction writer. Her first book, Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul, was published by Penguin Random…
Sophie Kirtley
Sophie Kirtley is a prizewinning poet and children’s author. Her writing is adventurous, heartfelt and lyrical, drawing inspiration from the…
Hanna Komar
Hanna Komar is a poet, translator and writer from Belarus, now based in London. She has published five poetry collections:…
Daisy Lafarge
Daisy Lafarge is a writer and artist living in Glasgow. She is the author of the novel Paul (Granta, 2021;…
Elizabeth Lewis
Elizabeth Lewis is a dramatist who has written a dozen radio plays, broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Her first radio…
Howard Linskey
Howard Linskey is an acclaimed author of crime fiction, historical fiction, and nonfiction. His first book The Drop (No Exit,…
Elizabeth Lowry
Elizabeth Lowry is a novelist and critic. Her gothic psychological mystery Dark Water (Quercus, 2018), set in a psychiatric hospital…
Darach MacDonald
Darach MacDonald is a journalist, novelist, poet and film-maker. Following a lengthy newspaper career in Ireland and Canada, he was…
Niki Mackay
Niki Mackay is a novelist and short-story writer specialising in the darker areas of fiction. She has written many books…
Michael Mann
Michael Mann is an award-winning children’s author of magical middle-grade novels. His debut Ghostcloud (Hachette, 2021) was a Waterstones’ best…
Lydia Marchant
Lydia Marchant is a script writer for stage, screen and audio. Her debut full-length play Mumsy, about parenting on a…
Zoë Marriott
Zoë Marriott is the critically acclaimed author of eight feminist, diverse novels for young adults, which draw strongly on world…
Andy Martin
Andy Martin is a writer who has written a lot about other writers, philosophers and surfers. And at least one…