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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.

|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…

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Julia Copus

Julia Copus is an award-winning poet and children’s writer. Her debut collection The Shuttered Eye appeared from Bloodaxe in 1995.…

Judy Corbalis
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Judy Corbalis

Judy Corbalis is a children’s writer, a novelist and short-story writer. She was born and brought up in New Zealand…

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Sarah Corbett

Sarah Corbett was born in Chester in 1970 and grew up in North Wales. She studied at Leeds University, the…

Caroline Corcoran by Dan Bentley
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Caroline Corcoran

Caroline Corcoran is an internationally published Sunday Times bestselling author whose work has been translated into multiple foreign languages and…

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Jane Corry

Jane Corry is a novelist, creative-writing tutor and journalist. Her first psychological thriller, ‘My Husband’s Wife’ will be published by…

Ben Cottam
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Ben Cottam

Ben Cottam is a prolific writer of radio adaptations, comedies and dramas. He is best known for the BBC Radio…

|Andrew Cowan
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Andrew Cowan

Andrew Cowan was born in Corby and educated at Beanfield Comprehensive and the University of East Anglia, where he is…

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Kerry Lee Crabbe

Kerry Lee Crabbe began his career in the theatre, directing plays by classic dramatists such as Chekhov, Ibsen, O’Casey and…

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Linda Cracknell

Linda Cracknell is a writer of prose and radio drama. Her two collections of short fiction — Life Drawing (NWP,…

Gareth Creer
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Gareth Creer

Gareth Creer is currently published by Faber & Faber under the pseudonym Adam Creed. His Staffe series of novels has…

Candida Crewe
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Candida Crewe

Candida Crewe was born in London in 1964. She wrote her first novel when she was eighteen, and has written…

Julia Crouch
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Julia Crouch

Julia is the author of seven internationally published crime novels: Cuckoo, Every Vow You Break, Tarnished, The Long Fall, Her…

Martyn Crucefix
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Martyn Crucefix

Martyn Crucefix is a poet, reviewer and blogger. He has published twelve original collections, most recently Cargo of Limbs (Hercules…

Kim Curran
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Kim Curran

Kim Curran is an author, freelance creative director and writing mentor. She has published six books for young people and…

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Catherine Czerkawska

Catherine Czerkawska has written poems, novels, short stories and award winning plays for the stage and for radio, including over…

Amanda Dalton|Amanda Dalton
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Amanda Dalton

Amanda Dalton is a poet, essayist and playwright specializing in theatre and radio drama. Her first poetry collection, How To Disappear (Bloodaxe…

Julia Darling 1956-2005
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Julia Darling

Julia Darling began her writing career as a poet and worked with The Poetry Virgins for many years, touring and…