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Sarah Williams
Sarah Williams has published books under two different names, each marking a different phase of her writing career. As Sarah…
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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Roy Williams
Roy began writing plays in 1990. In 2000 he was the joint-winner of the George Devine award and in 2001…
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Heidi Williamson
Norwich
Heidi Williamson is an award-winning poet and creative-writing tutor. Her first collection, Electric Shadow (Bloodaxe, 2011) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation…
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Claire Williamson
Claire Williamson is an award-winning poet and creative writer. Her latest poetry collection, Visiting the Minotaur (Seren, 2018), was a…
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Jackie Wills
Jackie Wills is a poet. Her work has been described as darkly British, surreal and elegant. While many of her…
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Jim C Wilson
Jim C. Wilson is a poet. Since 1983 his work has been published widely in anthologies, magazines, journals and newspapers,…
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James Wilson
James Wilson is a novelist whose work has been translated into nine languages. His four novels to date (all published…
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Anne Wilson
Anne Wilson is an award-winning scriptwriter, journalist and careers counsellor. After doing an MSc and a PhD in social psychology…
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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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Morgen Witzel
Morgen Witzel is the author or coauthor of twenty-eight books and several thousand articles, essays, reviews, commentaries and other short…
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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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James Woodall
James Woodall’s first book, In Search of the Firedance (1992), tells the story of flamenco. It remains the leading account…
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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…
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Anna Woodford
Anna Woodford is the author of six poetry books and pamphlets: EVERYTHING IS PRESENT (Salt, 2025), Changing Room (Salt, 2018),…
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Michael Woods
Michael Woods has three collections of poems published by Templar Poetry: Absence Notes (2011), Algebra (2017) and Opening Time (2018).…
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Benjamin Woolley
Benjamin Woolley is a writer, broadcaster and academic who has specialised in the often fraught relationship between the sciences and…
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Kate Worsley
Kate Worsley is an internationally published award-winning novelist and an experienced writing mentor and teacher, working mainly with writers of…
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Jonny Wright
Jonny Wright is a playwright and screenwriter. In 2010 his play Get the Greedy was commissioned by Immediate Theatre and…
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Stephen Wyatt
Stephen Wyatt is the only writer to have won the Tinniswood award for best original radio script twice – for…
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Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch
Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch is a poet who has published two collections with Picador, both of which were shortlisted for Wales Book…
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Cliff Yates
Cliff Yates is a poet. His various collections include Henry’s Clock (smith/doorstop, 1999) which won both the Aldeburgh first collection…
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Tamar Yellin
Tamar Yellin is a multi-award-winning novelist and short story writer. In 2007, she was the inaugural recipient of the international…
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Kerry Young
Kerry Young is a novelist with three books published by Bloomsbury: Pao (2011), Gloria (2013) and Show Me A Mountain (2016). All three…