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Teresa Heapy
Teresa Heapy is an award-winning children’s book author. She has written nine picture books including Loved to Bits (about a battered teddy…
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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Becca Heddle
Becca Heddle is an award-winning writer of books for children. Mainly published in primary school reading schemes by Oxford University…
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Kathy Henderson
Kathy Henderson is an award-winning children’s author and poet, and an artist, illustrator and printmaker. From picture books to poetry…
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Diana Hendry
Diana Hendry is a poet, short-story writer and children’s author. She has published five collections of poems — Making Blue…
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Tracey Herd
Tracey Herd is a poet. Her work was first published while she was an undergraduate at Dundee University in New…
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Deanne Heron
Old Trafford, Manchester
I was born in Kingston, Jamaica but came to live in Manchester, England in 1967. I am a qualified person-centred…
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Tania Hershman
Tania Hershman is a writer of short stories, poetry and hybrids, often inspired by science. Her first book The White Road…
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Kate Hewitt
Kate Hewitt is the pen name of Katharine Swartz, who is the author of numerous works of contemporary and historical…
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Kathryn Heyman
Kathryn Heyman is a novelist, essayist and scriptwriter. Her fifth novel Floodline was published in September 2013 and has been…
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Katie Hickman
Katie Hickman is a highly acclaimed novelist, historian and travel writer. She is the author of nine books, including two…
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Sarah Hilary
Sarah Hilary is the author of six books in the D.I. Marnie Rome series. Her debut, Someone Else’s Skin, won the…
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Selima Hill
Selima Hill was born in Hampstead in 1945 into a family of painters and writers. She read Moral Sciences at…
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Tobias Hill
Tobias Hill was born in London. His first collection of poetry, Year of the Dog, won an Eric Gregory award.…
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Charlie Hill
Charlie Hill is a writer of novels, short stories and memoir, whose work employs a variety of formal approaches. His…
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Christopher Hill
Christopher William Hill is an award-winning playwright, radio dramatist and children’s author. His work is often blackly comic or gothic…
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Joanna Hines
Having always been a fiction writer, Joanna Hines (now writing as Joanna Hodgkin) has recently discovered the narrative pleasures of…
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Laura Hird
Laura Hird is the award-winning author of the collections Nail and Other Stories (Canongate, 1997) and Hope and Other Urban Tales (Canongate,…
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Peter Hobbs
Peter Hobbs is an acclaimed novelist and short-story writer. His first novel The Short Day Dying (Faber, 2005) won a…
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Nick Holdstock
Nick Holdstock is a writer of fiction and non-fiction. His first book, The Tree That Bleeds (Luath, 2012) was a…
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Julia Hollander
Julia Hollander writes nonfiction that originates in the lived experience, interweaving personal narratives with cutting-edge research. Her first book, Indian…
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Elizabeth Holloway
Dr Elizabeth Holloway (formerly Elizabeth Barrett) is an award-winning poet whose work has been published extensively in journals and anthologies.…
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Peter Hollywood
Peter Hollywood was twenty-one when his first short story ‘The Accident’ was accepted by the famed editor David Marcus for…
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Lakshmi Holmström, MBE
Lakshmi Holmstrom was a writer and translator, working from Tamil into English. Over 30 years she translated short stories, novels…
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Christina Hopkinson
Christina Hopkinson is a novelist and journalist specialising in writing about contemporary issues in a witty and incisive way —…