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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.

Christopher Hill
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Christopher Hill

Christopher William Hill is an award-winning playwright, radio dramatist and children’s author. His work is often blackly comic or gothic…

Julia Hollander
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Julia Hollander

Julia Hollander writes nonfiction that originates in the lived experience, interweaving personal narratives with cutting-edge research. Her first book, Indian…

Elizabeth Barrett
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Elizabeth Holloway

Dr Elizabeth Holloway (formerly Elizabeth Barrett) is an award-winning poet whose work has been published extensively in journals and anthologies.…

Paul Howarth
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Paul Howarth

Paul Howarth is an award-winning author and former lawyer. His first novel, Only Killers and Thieves (HarperCollins and Pushkin Press)…

Kathryn Hughes
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Kathryn Hughes

Kathryn Hughes is a nonfiction writer, specialising in the nineteenth century. Her first book, which was based on her PhD,…

Megan Hunter
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Megan Hunter

Megan Hunter is a prizewinning novelist, poet and screenwriter. Her first novel, The End We Start From, a story of…

Mark Illis|Dipo Agboluaje|Louise Foxcroft|Mark Illis
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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 by Annie Johnston
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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 by Stuart Bailie
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Rosemary Jenkinson

Rosemary Jenkinson is a short-story writer, playwright, poet, essayist, memoirist and cultural commentator. She particularly loves the short story as…

Emma John
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Emma John

Born near Luton in 1978, Emma John is the author of three nonfiction books whose writing spans numerous fields. As…

Anjali Joseph
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Anjali Joseph

Anjali Joseph is a prizewinning novelist. She is interested in how art can attune a reader to experience more joy.…

Satinder Chohan
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Satinder Kaur Chohan

Satinder Kaur Chohan is a writer, primarily of plays and audio dramas, whose stories explore hidden global South Asian worlds…

Greg Keen
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Gregory Keen

Greg Keen is a crime writer with a particular interest in urban noir. Greg won the Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger…

Helen Kelly
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Helen Kelly

Helen Kelly has written theatre for casts of one and casts of sixty, including a number of pieces for the…

Taran Khan by Jonathan Page
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Taran Khan

Taran N. Khan is an award-winning journalist and nonfiction writer. Her first book, Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul, was…

Matt Killeen
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Matt Killeen

Matt Killeen is a bestselling author of historical fiction for young adults. His first novel, Orphan Monster Spy (Usborne, 2018),…

Richard King
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Richard King

Richard King is an acclaimed cultural historian, whose work focuses on the intersections of identity, subculture and place. His first…

Sophie Kirtley
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Sophie Kirtley

Sophie Kirtley is a prizewinning poet and children’s author. Her writing is adventurous, heartfelt and lyrical, drawing inspiration from the…

Elizabeth Lewis
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Elizabeth Lewis

Elizabeth Lewis is a dramatist who has written a dozen radio plays, broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Her first radio…

Olivia Lichtenstein
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Olivia Lichtenstein

Olivia Lichtenstein is a BAFTA award-winning documentary filmmaker and novelist. At the BBC, she was editor of BBC ONE flagship…

Howard Linskey by Donna-Lisa Healy
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Howard Linskey

Howard Linskey is an acclaimed author of crime fiction, historical fiction, and nonfiction. His first book The Drop (No Exit,…

Darach MacDonald
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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
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Niki Mackay

Niki Mackay is a novelist and short-story writer specialising in the darker areas of fiction. She has written many books…

Garry MacKenzie
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Garry MacKenzie

Garry MacKenzie is a prizewinning poet and nonfiction writer whose work focuses on landscape and the environment. His nonfiction book…