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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.

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Ian Thomson

Ian Thomson is an award-winning biographer, travel writer, translator and literary critic known for his interest in Italy, the West…

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Hugh Thomson

Hugh Thomson is one of Britain’s leading travel writers who won the inaugural Wainwright Prize from a shortlist that included The…

Valerie Thornton
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Valerie Thornton

Valerie Thornton writes poetry, short stories and creative-writing textbooks. She also teaches creative writing and works with teachers on developing…

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Lorna Thorpe

Lorna Thorpe’s first book Dancing to Motown (Pighog, 2005) was a Poetry Book Society pamphlet choice. The book marked a…

Rhiannon Tise
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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…

Claudine Toutoungi
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Claudine Toutoungi

Claudine Toutoungi is an award-winning playwright and poet. Her first collection Smoothie (Carcanet, 2017) received warm reviews and was followed…

Jeremy Treglown
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Jeremy Treglown

As a writer, critic, editor, teacher, literary trustee and prize-judge Jeremy Treglown has spent much of his career trying to…

Jonathan Tulloch
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Jonathan Tulloch

Jonathan Tulloch is a prizewinning novelist and naturalist. He writes the Natures Notes for the Times and has published ten…

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Julian Turner

Julian Turner is a writer and poet with three collections of poetry from Anvil Press, the most recent of which…

Angela Turvey
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Angela Turvey

Angela Turvey was born in east London to Jamaican parents and grew up in Essex. She writes for television, radio…

Keith Tutt
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Keith Tutt

Keith became a full-time writer when he left Bristol University in 1981. He has written plays, screenplays and non-fiction books…

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Dr Maryon Tysoe

Maryon Tysoe was a chartered psychologist and a fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS). Her writing had been primarily…

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Eleanor Updale

Eleanor Updale writes fiction for readers of all ages. Her Montmorency series of historical novels has been published in several…

Jenny Valentine by Billie Charity
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Jenny Valentine

Jenny Valentine is an award-winning writer for children and young adults. Her first book, Finding Violet Park, won the Guardian…

Menna van Praag
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Menna van Praag

Menna van Praag is a bestselling author whose work reflects her fascination with finding the magical in the mundane. Her…

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Salley Vickers

Salley Vickers has worked as a teacher for children with special needs, a university teacher of literature, an adult education…

Hannah Vincent|Hannah Vincent
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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…

Vitali Vitaliev
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Vitali Vitaliev

Vitali Vitaliev is a UK-based multi-award-winning and fully bilingual (English-Russian) author, columnist, editor and broadcaster. Starting his career in the…

Anthony Vivis 1943-2013
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Anthony Vivis

Anthony Vivis’ work has been produced by the Royal National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company and Royal Court, as well as…

Steve Voake
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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…

Mirza Waheed
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Mirza Waheed

Mirza Waheed was born and brought up in Kashmir. His debut novel, The Collaborator, was an international bestseller, a finalist…

Martyn Waites
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Martyn Waites

Martyn Waites was born and brought up in Newcastle Upon Tyne. Before becoming a writer he was an actor. He has…

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Stephen Wakelam

Stephen Wakelam is the author of more than 40 performed plays for television, radio and the stage, including two plays…

Christopher Wakling
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Christopher Wakling

Christopher Wakling’s seven acclaimed novels include Escape and Evasion (Faber), a tragicomedy about a rogue banker’s Copernican change of heart; What…