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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.

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,…

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…

Luiza Sauma
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Luiza Sauma

Luiza Sauma is a critically acclaimed Brazilian-British novelist and journalist. Her fiction plays with genre and form, and examines memory,…

Jamie Lee Searle
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Jamie Lee Searle

Jamie Lee Searle is a literary translator, writer and mentor. She translates German-language and Portuguese-language writing into English for publishing…

Ian Seed
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Ian Seed

Ian Seed is an award-winning poet, translator, short-story writer, essayist and editor. With a surreal edge, his writing often exposes…

Miranda Seymour
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Miranda Seymour

Miranda Seymour is a celebrated biographer and prizewinning memoir writer. Her books include lives of Robert Graves, Ada Lovelace, Mary…

Amanda Smyth
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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…

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…

Em Strang
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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…

David Swann
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David 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,…

Gill Thompson
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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…

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…

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…

Roy Williams
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Roy Williams

Roy began writing plays in 1990. In 2000 he was the joint-winner of the George Devine award and in 2001…

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…

Alex Wong
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Alex Wong

Alex Wong is a poet and literary critic with an increasing interest in the medium of essayistic prose. He has…

Michael Woods
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Michael Woods

Michael Woods has three collections of poems published by Templar Poetry: Absence Notes (2011), Algebra (2017) and Opening Time (2018).…