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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Nikki Sheehan

Nikki Sheehan is an award-winning YA author, journalist, mentor and creative writing teacher. She has published six books, both fiction…

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Amanda Smyth

Amanda Smyth is Irish-Trinidadian, and author of three novels. Her first novel, Black Rock, was based on the murder of…

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Emma Strang

Em Strang is an award-winning poet and novelist, preoccupied with nature, spirituality (in particular, Christian mysticism) and the question of…

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Julie Summers

Julie Summers is a bestselling nonfiction author, historian and broadcaster. Her work focuses on stories of ordinary people faced with…

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Gillian Thompson

Gill Thompson is the author of four historical fiction novels, set in and around World War Two. The Oceans Between…

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Claudine Toutoungi

Claudine Toutoungi is an award-winning playwright and poet. Her first collection Smoothie (Carcanet, 2017) received warm reviews and was followed…

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Vitali Vitaliev

Vitali Vitaliev is a UK-based multi-award-winning and fully bilingual (English-Russian) author, columnist, editor and broadcaster. Starting his career in the…

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Mirza Waheed

Mirza Waheed was born and brought up in Kashmir. His debut novel, The Collaborator, was an international bestseller, a finalist…

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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…

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