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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.

Maeve Clarke
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Maeve Clarke

Maeve Clarke is an award-winning writer from Birmingham. Her novel, Trapped Between Two Worlds won the SI Leeds Literary prize…

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Sally Pomme Clayton

Sally Pomme Clayton is a writer and storyteller who loves fairytales. She has published many children’s books including Greek Myths:…

Brian Clegg
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Brian Clegg

Brian Clegg is an award-winning popular science writer. He began writing professionally for computing magazines in the 1990s, providing features…

Katherine Clements
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Katherine Clements

Katherine Clements is a novelist and short story writer. Her debut novel, The Crimson Ribbon, was published in 2014 and…

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Carol Clewlow

Carol Clewlow started off her writing life as a journalist. She worked in Northern Ireland at the outbreak of the…

Nigel Cliff
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Nigel Cliff

Nigel Cliff is an acclaimed nonfiction writer specialising in cultural history and the history of exploration. His first book, The…

Sally Cline
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Sally Cline

Sally Cline, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, was born in London and held degrees and masters from Durham University…

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Ann Coburn

Ann Coburn is a children’s novelist who also writes for the theatre. Her fiction includes Glint (2005), a novel for…

Catherine Coe
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Catherine Coe

Catherine Coe is a children’s book author and editor with over forty books published, including the million-selling Blossom Wood series…

Marianne Colbran
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Marianne Colbran

Marianne Colbran is a nonfiction writer and screenwriter/playwright. Having started her career writing for a police show, she is fascinated…

Rebecca Colby
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Rebecca Colby

Harrogate

Rebecca Colby is an award-winning author, poet and screenwriter. She has published over forty-eight children’s books with Macmillan, Penguin Random House,…

Rowan Coleman
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Rowan Coleman

Rowan Coleman is the internationally bestselling author and screenwriter of more than thirty cross-genre novels and screenplays. Her first novel…

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Beatrice Colin

Beatrice Colin was a novelist who also wrote extensively for radio. Her novels included The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite…

Lizzie Collingham|Lizzie Collingham
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Lizzie Collingham

Lizzie Collingham is a historian interested in linking the minutiae of daily life to the broad sweep of historical processes.…

Vanessa Collingridge
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Vanessa Collingridge

Dr Vanessa Collingridge is a broadcaster and writer, specialising in science, history and the environment. After graduating with a First…

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Kate Colquhoun

Kate Colquhoun is a biographer and historian. Her first book A Thing in Disguise: the visionary life of Joseph Paxton…

Mary Colson
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Mary Colson

Mary Colson is a teacher and writer specialising in non-fiction. She has written over 50 non-fiction books for children on…

|Clare Colvin
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Clare Colvin

Clare Colvin is an acclaimed novelist and short-story writer, whose fiction focuses on themes of history, music and art. Her…

Brian Conaghan
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Brian Conaghan

Brian Conaghan is an award-winning author of ten young adult and middle-grade novels, which have been published in a variety…

Tom Connolly|Tom Connolly
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Tom Connolly

Tom Connolly is the author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Spider Truces and Men Like Air. His work is…

Elizabeth Cook
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Elizabeth Cook

Elizabeth Cook is a poet, fiction writer, and librettist, interested in the ways in which the past is continually being…

Trish Cooke
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Trish Cooke

Bradford

Trish Cooke writes scripts for theatre, TV, film, radio, and she is also a children’s author. As a playwright, Trish…

Mary Cooper by Alan Hamer
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Mary Cooper

Mary Cooper is an award-winning writer whose work embraces theatre, radio, television, film, digital narratives and podcasts. She has written…

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Yvonne Coppard

Yvonne Coppard was a secondary-school teacher for some years and then a child-protection adviser, cramming her writing career into whatever…