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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.

Cole Moreton credit Phil Burrowes
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Cole Moreton

Cole Moreton is a writer and broadcaster exploring who we are and what we believe in. His debut Hungry for…

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…

Robin Mukherjee
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Robin Mukherjee

Robin Mukherjee studied Law at Nottingham University but abandoned his legal career to pursue the literary arts. Since then he…

Orlando Murrin credit Adrian Sherratt
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Orlando Murrin

Orlando Murrin is a food writer, editor and author of two acclaimed crime novels, Knife Skills for Beginners and Murder…

Molly Naylor
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Molly Naylor

Molly Naylor is an award-winning writer and performer. She has published three poetry collections, a graphic novel (illustrated by Lizzy…

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…

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,…

Julia Pascal credit Habie Schwarz
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Julia Pascal

Julia Pascal is a playwright whose dramas mainly explore war, exile and inherited trauma. The granddaughter of Romanian Jews, who…

Emma Pass
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Emma Pass

Emma Pass writes novels for children, young adults and adults. Her debut YA novel, dystopian thriller ACID (Penguin Random House,…

Ashok Patel credit Ayesha Jones
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Ashok Patel

Ashok Patel is a Birmingham-based writer of short stories and scripts for stage, radio and film. His BBC Radio 4…

Lara Pawson
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Lara Pawson

Lara Pawson began her writing life in journalism and nonfiction, but has moved into fiction. Spent Light (CB editions, 2024),…

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…

Keiron Pim credit Nick Stone
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Keiron Pim

Keiron Pim is the author of two widely acclaimed biographies, Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth (Granta, 2022) and…

Claire Prentice credit Maria Erla Portway
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Claire Prentice

Claire Prentice is an award-winning journalist, and the author of historical narrative nonfiction books. Her first book, The Lost Tribe…

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…

Leone Ross credit Hayley Benoit
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Leone Ross

Leone Ross FRSL is a novelist and short story writer, working in hybrid forms: literary fantasy; authentic erotica; the social…

Rebecca Ryan
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Rebecca Ryan

Rebecca Ryan is an author of contemporary, uplifting fiction. Her first book, My (extra) Ordinary Life was published by Simon…

Sid Sagar credit Harry Livingstone
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Sid Sagar

Sid Sagar is an actor, playwright and screenwriter. His play Biting Point (Faber, 2025) explores road rage and race and…

Melinda Salisbury
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Melinda Salisbury

Melinda Salisbury is the author of more than a dozen books for young adults, with a focus on speculative coming-of-age…

Helen Sedgwick by Michael Gallacher
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Helen Sedgwick

Helen Sedgwick is a cross-genre author of literary fiction, science fiction and folk horror. She writes about human connection across…

Kathryn Simmonds credit Conrad Costa
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Kathryn Simmonds

Kathryn Simmonds is a poet and children’s writer. Her debut collection of poems, Sunday at the Skin Launderette (Seren, 2008),…

Catherine Simpson credit Julia Boggio
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Catherine Simpson

Catherine Simpson is a memoirist and novelist whose work dissects family life, exploring themes of mental and physical ill health,…

Lucy Strange
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Lucy Strange

Lucy Strange is an award-winning children’s author. Her books capture elements of classic children’s literature in a style that is…