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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.

Alison MacLeod
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Alison MacLeod

Alison MacLeod is a leading novelist and short story writer, with a particular interest in the porous boundaries between realist…

Richard Madden
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Richard Madden

Richard Madden is an award-winning travel writer and author who has written, co-written or ghost-written eight books. These include two…

Harry Man
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Harry Man

Harry Man is an award-winning poet, playwright and translator. His work has been published in newspapers and literary journals nationally…

Abigail Mann by Beth Clarence
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Abigail Mann

Abigail Mann is a novelist and writer of contemporary fiction, short stories, and nonfiction, with humour often an identifying feature…

Michael Mann by Anita Chaudhuri
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Michael Mann

Michael Mann is an award-winning children’s author of magical middle-grade novels. His debut Ghostcloud (Hachette, 2021) was a Waterstones’ best…

Zoe Marriott
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Zoë Marriott

Zoë Marriott is the critically acclaimed author of eight feminist, diverse novels for young adults, which draw strongly on world…

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…

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…

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…

Miranda Moore
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Miranda Moore

Miranda Moore is a nonfiction and fiction writer, as well as a freelance editor. She is winner of the Wells…

Alex Nye
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Alexandra Nye

Alex Nye is an award-winning writer. Her first novel Chill (Floris, 2006) won the 2007 Royal Mail Scottish Children’s award,…

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…

Simon Okotie
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Simon Okotie

Simon Okotie is a fiction writer and essayist. He is the author of Whatever Happened to Harold Absalon?, In the…

Peter Oswald
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Peter Oswald

Peter Oswald is a playwright, poet and performer. He was writer in residence at Shakespeare’s Globe. Three of his plays…

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,…

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Nii Ayikwei Parkes

Nii Ayikwei Parkes is a writer, editor, socio-cultural commentator and broadcaster. A 2007 recipient of Ghana’s national ACRAG award for…

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…

Mary Paulson-Ellis
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Mary Paulson-Ellis

Mary Paulson-Ellis is an award-winning novelist writing across the genres of crime, historical and literary fiction. Her critically acclaimed debut,…

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…

Katharine Quarmby
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Katharine Quarmby

Katharine Quarmby has written non-fiction, short stories and books for children. Her non-fiction works include Scapegoat: Why We Are Failing…

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…

Simon-Rae
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Simon Rae

Simon Rae is a poet, playwright, prose writer and broadcaster. For a decade he wrote topical poems for the Guardian,…