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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.

Bethany Rutter
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Bethany Rutter

Bethany Rutter is the author of contemporary romance novels for adults and young people. Her background as a plus-size fashion…

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…

Rebecca Stott
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Rebecca Stott

Rebecca Stott is a historian, writer and radio broadcaster, a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Emeritus Professor…

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…

David Swann
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Dave Swann

Dave Swann is a poet and fiction writer, who is inspired by the resilience of people who live on the…

Rebecca Tantony
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Rebecca Tantony

Rebecca Tantony is the author of three poetry and flash nonfiction collections, all published by Burning Eye Books (2015, 2017,…

Jeremy Treglown
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Jeremy Treglown

As a writer, critic, editor, teacher, literary trustee and prize-judge Jeremy Treglown has spent much of his career trying to…

Jenny Valentine by Billie Charity
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Jenny Valentine

Jenny Valentine is an award-winning writer for children and young adults. Her first book, Finding Violet Park, won the Guardian…

Christopher Wakling
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Christopher Wakling

Christopher Wakling’s seven acclaimed novels include Escape and Evasion (Faber), a tragicomedy about a rogue banker’s Copernican change of heart; What…

Roz Watkins
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Roz Watkins

Roz Watkins is an acclaimed crime writer, author of a detective series set in the Peak District and a standalone…

Tony White by Chris Dorley-Brown
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Tony White

Tony White is an acclaimed novelist and short-story writer. His novels include Foxy-T (Faber, 2003), and The Fountain in the…

Claire Williamson
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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…

Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch
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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…

Leo Zeilig
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Leo Zeilig

Leo Zeilig is a celebrated writer and historian. His nonfiction examines the remarkable lives, scholarship and political movements of the…