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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.

Emily Berry
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Emily Berry

Emily Berry is a poet, editor and occasional prose writer. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she is…

Jane-Bingham
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Jane Bingham

Jane Bingham is a versatile writer for children and teenagers. Over the past 12 years, she has written more than…

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Michael Bird

St Ives, Cornwall

Michael Bird is an independent art historian, with special interests in modern art, cultural history and the ‘art/life divide’. His…

Dea Birkett
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Dea Birkett

Dea Birkett is a writer and broadcaster. Her books include Serpent in Paradise (1997), shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel…

Julian Birkett
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Julian Birkett

Julian Birkett has over the years been a writer, documentary film maker and teacher. He has written TV scripts, a…

Michael Blackburn
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Michael Blackburn

Poetry has always been Michael Blackburn’s main focus as a writer and, since his first pamphlet The Constitution of Things…

Robin-Blake
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Robin Blake

After reading English at Cambridge, and a few years in teaching, Robin worked for Capital Radio’s features unit as a…

Tessa Boase|Tessa Boase
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Tessa Boase

Tessa Boase is an editor, journalist and author, specialising in popular history books for adults. After a career in national…

Robyn-Bolam
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Robyn Bolam

Robyn Bolam is a prize-winning poet and a librettist. Her poetry collections, published by Bloodaxe, are The Peepshow Girl (1989),…

Simon Booker
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Simon Booker

Novelist and TV screenwriter Simon Booker wrote prime time drama for BBC1, ITV and US TV. His credits included BBC1’s…

Craig Borlase
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Craig Borlase

Craig Borlase is a New York Times, Sunday Times and international bestselling ghostwriter, collaborating with others to create dramatic, engaging…

Jane Borodale
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Jane Borodale

Jane Borodale is a fiction writer with a particular interest in the history of ordinary people, often in the context…

Penny Boxall
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Penny Boxall

Penny Boxall is an award-winning poet whose work draws on her career in museums. Her first collection, Ship of the…

Charles-Boyle
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Charles Boyle

Charles Boyle’s publications include poetry, fiction and work that combines fiction with non-fiction. His poetry collections have been shortlisted for…

Zoë Brân
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Zoë Brân

Zoë Brân was born in Wales. Between various university degrees, she lived and travelled extensively in Europe, Asia, North Africa…

Ruth Brandon
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Ruth Brandon

Ruth Brandon began her working life at the BBC, which she joined as a general trainee after reading French and…

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Sabrina Broadbent

A former head of English and English adviser, Sabrina is a novelist, journalist and part-time English and film studies teacher…

David-Brodie
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David Brodie

David Brodie has spent the last two decades writing about and around the sciences, both for young people and for…

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Caroline Brothers

Caroline Brothers is a novelist who explores the lives of ordinary people dealing with the aftermath of extraordinary events. Her…

Judy Brown
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Judy Brown

Judy Brown’s first collection of poetry, Loudness (Seren, 2011), was shortlisted for the Forward Felix Dennis and Fenton Aldeburgh prizes…

Stephen Brown
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Stephen Brown

Stephen Brown is a writer, translator and dramaturg. Stephen’s plays include Occupational Hazards (Hampstead Theatre, 2017), an adaptation of Rory…

Sue Brown
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Sue Brown

Edgbaston, Birmingham

For more than twenty-five years, I have been very fortunate to say that much of my work has been around…

Alison-Bruce
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Alison Bruce

Alison Bruce is a crime novelist and creator of the Cambridge-based Gary Goodhew series, which includes the bestselling titles Cambridge…

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Tom Bryan

Tom Bryan was born in Winnipeg, Canada of Irish descent but has lived in Scotland for many years. He is…