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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…
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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Penny Black
Penny Black is an award-winning translator (from German), writer and dramaturg. Her love of theatre started in Vienna, where she…
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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…
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Mark Blacklock
Dr Mark Blacklock is a novelist, cultural historian and occasional journalist and lecturer. His first novel, I’m Jack, a fictionalised…
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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…
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Mark Blayney
Mark won the Somerset Maugham award for Two Kinds of Silence. His short stories Doppelgangers and spoken word Loud Music…
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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…
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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),…
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Michael Bond
Michael Bond writes nonfiction books about human psychology and behaviour. He is interested in the many ways we are influenced…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Deborah Bosley
Deborah Walker’s writing career began in 1987 with The Rough Guide to California and The Rough Guide to San Francisco. An argument with…
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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…
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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…
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Nick Bradley
Nick Bradley is the author of The Cat and The City (Atlantic, 2020) and Four Seasons in Japan (Doubleday, 2023)…
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Sita Brahmachari
Sita Brahmachari is an award-winning writer of numerous intergenerational, rites-of-passage novels, short stories and plays. Her debut novel Artichoke Hearts…
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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…
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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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Carys Bray
Carys Bray is a novelist and short-story writer. Her first novel, A Song for Issy Bradley (Hutchinson, 2014), was shortlisted for…
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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…
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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…
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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…