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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.

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Beatrix Campbell, OBE

Beatrix Campbell is an award-winning writer and broadcaster. Her books range from Wigan Pier Revisited (about poverty, politics and George…

Helen Carey
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Helen Carey

Helen Carey is best known as the author of the ongoing wartime Lavender Road series. Published by Orion, these novels…

Matt Carr
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Matt Carr

Matt Carr is a writer and journalist. His nonfiction books include the widely acclaimed memoir of his Caribbean childhood, My…

Jim Carruth
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Jim Carruth

Glasgow

Jim Carruth is a poet, editor and awards and events programmer. His first pamphlet, Bovine Pastoral, came out in 2004 and…

Genevieve Carver by Alexandra Wallace
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Genevieve Carver

Genevieve Carver is an award-winning writer and performer whose work has spanned poetry and spoken word, theatre, music, screenwriting and…

Geoffrey Case
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Geoffrey Case

Geoffrey Case has written for the theatre, television and the screen. His films for television include Fairies (a film based…

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Harriet Castor

Harriet Castor is a writer who specialises in books for children and young people. Her first book Fat Puss and…

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Annie Caulfield

Travel writer, dramatist and broadcaster, Annie Caulfield liked to tell stories, whatever the form. She published regularly in newspapers and…

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Philip Caveney

Philip Caveney was born in north Wales and over a long and varied career has published 12 adult novels and…

Clare Chambers
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Clare Chambers

Clare Chambers was born in south-east London in 1966. She studied English at Hertford College, Oxford and spent the year…

Roland Chambers
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Roland Chambers

Roland Chambers is an award-winning biographer, children’s author and illustrator. His biography of Arthur Ransome, The Last Englishman, describes Ransome’s…

Maisie Chan
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Maisie Chan

Maisie Chan is an award-winning children’s author. Her debut Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths (Piccadilly Press) won the Branford…

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Deborah Chancellor

Deborah Chancellor is a writer of children’s fiction and non-fiction. To date, she has written nearly 100 books for a variety…

Rob Chapman|Rob Chapman
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Rob Chapman

Rob Chapman is an author of fiction and non-fiction, an occasional hackademic and has a PhD. His lecturing experience has…

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Debjani Chatterjee, MBE

Debjani Chatterjee is an award-winning poet, children’s writer and translator, who has been described as ‘Britain’s best-known Asian poet’ (Elisabetta…

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Mavis Cheek

Mavis Cheek was published by both Faber & Faber and Hutchinson in the UK and Europe. Starting in 1988, she…

Anne Chisholm
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Anne Chisholm

Anne Chisholm is a biographer and critic who has also worked in journalism and publishing. Her first biography, Nancy Cunard (1979), won…

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Kate Chisholm

Kate Chisholm is the radio critic of the Spectator and the author of Fanny Burney: her life (Chatto & Windus,…

Marcus Chown
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Marcus Chown

Marcus Chown is an award-winning writer, journalist and broadcaster. His books include Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You; We Need to…

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Rupert Christiansen

Over the last 30 years, Rupert Christiansen has enjoyed a varied career in the literary and artistic worlds, taking particular…

Regi Claire
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Regi Claire

Swiss-born, Scotland-based Regi Claire started off as a fiction writer before becoming a poet. Her second novel, The Waiting (Word…

Horatio Clare
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Horatio Clare

Horatio Clare is the bestselling author of two memoirs, Running for the Hills and Truant; three books of nature and…

Polly Clark
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Polly Clark

Polly Clark is the author of three novels and four collections of poetry.  Her third novel Ocean was published in hardback by…

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Kevin Clarke

Kevin Clarke wrote and directed his first play The Jackpot at the Finborough; as a result of its success he…