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Vayu Naidu
Sita’s Ascent (Penguin, 2013), a novel, was a fictional discourse about women in exile and was nominated for the Commonwealth…
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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Stephanie Norgate
Stephanie Norgate is a playwright and poet. Her first play, The Greatest Gift, broadcast on BBC R4, won a Radio…
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Lizzie Nunnery
Lizzie Nunnery’s work as a playwright has often explored historical settings and migrant characters. Her first play Intemperance (Liverpool Everyman, 2007), was…
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Donny O'Rourke
Donny O’Rourke’s ten poetry collections, the three CDs featuring his song lyrics and his television films and works for the…
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Anthony J Quinn
I am a critically acclaimed author of ten novels, mostly in the crime fiction and historical fiction genres. My debut…
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Leila Rasheed
Leila Rasheed is a widely published author of children’s fiction. For over fifteen years, she has taught Creative Writing and…
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Marnie Riches
Marnie Riches grew up on a rough estate in north Manchester. Exchanging the spires of nearby Strangeways prison for those…
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Carina Rodney
Carina Rodney is an award-winning writer for stage, screen and radio. Her theatre work has toured nationally and includes original scripts,…
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Cynthia Rogerson
Cynthia Rogerson is the author of five literary novels, a memoir, and a collection of short stories and was shortlisted…
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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,…
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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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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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Dyan Sheldon
Dyan Sheldon has written over fifty titles, ranging from picture books and children’s fiction to young adult and adult novels.…
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Chris Simms
Chris Simms writes tense thrillers mostly set in and around Manchester, the area where he lives. However, his debut novel Outside…
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Jon Stock
Jon Stock is a full-time writer of commercial fiction, specialising first in spy novels and, in recent years, psychological thrillers…
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Emma Strang
Em Strang is an award-winning poet and novelist, preoccupied with nature, spirituality (in particular, Christian mysticism) and the question of…
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Rhiannon Tise
Rhiannon Tise is an award-winning writer for radio, theatre and television. In 2017 her ten-part adaptation of Louisa May Allcott’s…
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Hannah Vincent
Hannah Vincent is an award-winning playwright. She has also written two novels, Alarm Girl (2014) and The Weaning (2018) and…
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Steve Voake
Steve Voake is the award-winning author of several young adult novels including The Dreamwalker’s Child, The Starlight Conspiracy and Blood…
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Stuart Walton
Stuart Walton is a cultural historian, critical theorist and novelist. His widely acclaimed comparative study, Out of It: A Cultural…
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Sarah Ward
Sarah Ward is a critically acclaimed Welsh crime and thriller writer. Her third book in her Derbyshire quartet, A Patient Fury (Faber,…
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Anna Wilson
My first book was Over in the Grasslands (Macmillan, 1999) — a picture book written while I was working as…
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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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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…