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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.

Toby Martinez de las Rivas
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Toby Martinez de las Rivas

Toby Martinez de las Rivas’ publications include three full collections from Faber & Faber. Black Sun (2018) was shortlisted for…

Katy Massey
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Katy Massey

Katy Massey is an acclaimed memoirist, novelist and tutor. She was awarded her PhD in Creative Writing (Life Writing) by…

Alexander Masters
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Alexander Masters

Alexander Masters is a biographer, illustrator and journalist with a wide range of interests, from homelessness and diary writing as…

Karen McCombie
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Karen McCombie

Karen McCombie is described by Waterstone’s as ‘one of children’s fiction’s most accomplished authors’. Over the past two decades, she…

Thomas McMullan by Sophie Davidson
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Thomas McMullan

Thomas McMullan is an award-winning novelist and short-story writer. He is the author of The Last Good Man (Bloomsbury, 2020),…

Livi Michael
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Livi Michael

Livi Michael has written novels for adults, young adults and children. Her twentieth novel, Reservoir, was published in March 2023…

Beth Miller
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Beth Miller

Beth Miller is a novelist and nonfiction writer. She has published seven novels, four with Bookouture. These include the Kindle…

Nicola Monaghan
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Nicola Monaghan

Nicola Monaghan is the author of the Sian Love mystery series including the critically acclaimed Dead Flowers, which was shortlisted…

Miranda Moore
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Miranda Moore

Miranda Moore writes fiction and non-fiction and works as a freelance editor and writing coach. Her debut novel, A Beautiful, Terrible…

Ewan Morrison by Angela Catlin
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Ewan Morrison

Ewan Morrison is a multi-award-winning novelist, scriptwriter and essayist. His writing is inspired by his experiences within several ‘alternative lifestyle…

Franny Moyle
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Franny Moyle

Franny Moyle is a critically acclaimed biographer whose work focuses on historic cultural figures. Passionate to engage the widest possible…

Tiffany Murray
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Tiffany Murray

Tiffany Murray is a novelist and screenwriter. She specialised in post-colonial literature at New York University and critical and creative…

Sally O'Reilly by Georgia O'Reilly
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Sally O’Reilly

Sally O’Reilly is a novelist specialising in historical fiction with a particular interest in marginalised voices. Her first two novels…

Temi Oh
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Temi Oh

Temi Oh is an author and screenwriter based in London. She wrote her first novel while studying Neuroscience. Her degree…

Ruth Padel by Giliola Christe Mantua
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Ruth Padel

Ruth Padel (FRSL, FRZL) is an internationally published writer of poetry, novels, nonfiction and criticism with close links to Greece,…

Lisa Parry
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Lisa Parry

Lisa Parry is a playwright, screenwriter and audio writer. Her play NOT was recently read at The Other Place, Stratford,…

Sylvia Patterson
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Sylvia Patterson

Sylvia Patterson is an award-winning author and journalist whose 2016 memoir I’m Not with the Band (Sphere), tells the story…

Susannah Pearse
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Susannah Pearse

Susannah Pearse is a writer and composer working mainly in theatre and radio. She has co-written musical adaptations of Around…

Ian Pople
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Ian Pople

Dr Ian Pople’s first collection of poetry, The Glass Enclosure (Arc), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and shortlisted for…

Chris Power
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Chris Power

Chris Power is the author of a collection of short stories, Mothers (Faber & Faber, 2018), which was longlisted for…

Holly Race by Alex Beckett
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Holly Race

Holly Race is a novelist and screenwriter, with a particular interest in using fantasy and historical inspiration as springboards to…

Katy Regan by Louis Quail
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Katy Regan

Katy Regan is a novelist and journalist with a special interest in underrepresented voices and stories. Her latest novel How…

Lucy Ribchester
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Lucy Ribchester

Lucy Ribchester is a novelist and short-story writer based in Edinburgh. She has written three historical crime fiction novels exploring…

Leigh Russell
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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,…