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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.

Babs-Horton
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Babs Horton

Babs Horton is an award-winning novelist. Her first book A Jarful of Angels (Simon & Schuster, 2003) won the Pendleton…

Zoe Howe
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Zoë Howe

Zoë Howe’s books span the worlds of music, culture and the occult. A strong advocate for women and cultural figures…

Linda-Hoy
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Linda Hoy

Once upon a time there was an author who wrote many, many books for young people — books about runaway…

Kate Hubbard
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Kate Hubbard

Kate Hubbard began her writing career as a children’s author, of fiction and nonfiction: two short biographies, of Queen Victoria…

Mark Hudson
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Mark Hudson

Mark Hudson’s first book,Our Grandmothers’ Drums, describing a year spent in a remote Gambian village, won the Thomas Cook Award…

Robert Hudson
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Robert Hudson

Robert Hudson is an award-winning dramatist, novelist and comedy writer. He has co-written musicals about Russian propaganda, AI and Climate…

Adriana Hunter
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Adriana Hunter

Adriana Hunter is an award-winning translator of French. Since ‘discovering’ the first book she was to translate in 1998, she…

Megan Hunter
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Megan Hunter

Megan Hunter is a prizewinning novelist, poet and screenwriter. Her first novel, The End We Start From, a story of…

shahrukh husain
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Shahrukh Husain

Shahrukh Husain writes fiction and non-fiction for adults and children. She also writes screenplays and the occasional play. Her adult…

Aamer Hussein
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Aamer Hussein

Aamer Hussein was born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan, but has lived in Britain since the 1970s. He studied at…

|Alexander Hutchison
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Alexander Hutchison

Alexander Hutchison is a poet and translator who writes in English and Scots. He was born and brought up in…

Elin ap Hywel
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Elin ap Hywel

Elin ap Hywel is a poet, translator and editor who works in Welsh and English. She was the RLF’s first…

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Mark Illis

Mark Illis writes novels for adults and teenagers, and has written extensively for television. His new novel for teens, Running…

Inbali Iserles
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Inbali Iserles

Inbali Iserles is an award-winning author of children’s books. Her writing is inspired by a love of the natural world…

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Mick Jackson

Mick Jackson writes fiction and screenplays. His first novel The Underground Man (Faber, 1997) was shortlisted for the Booker prize…

Andy Jackson
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Andy Jackson

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Andy Jackson is a poet and editor of several anthologies. His first collection The Assassination Museum was published in 2010…

Steven-Jacobi
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Steven Jacobi

Steven Jacobi’s work includes the novels Going Naked is the Best Disguise and A Short Series of Discrete Problems, the…

Lucy Jago
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Lucy Jago

Lucy Jago is an award-winning writer of fiction and non-fiction. Her first book, The Northern Lights (Hamish Hamilton, 2001) won the…

Lauren James
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Wren James

Wren James is the Carnegie-longlisted British author of many Young Adult novels as ‘Lauren James’, including Last Seen Online, Green…

Sarah Jasmon
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Sarah Jasmon

Sarah Jasmon is a novelist and short story writer, now navigating the world of creative nonfiction and hybrid form. Her…

Michael-Jecks
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Michael Jecks

Michael Jecks is a prolific international novelist, with 32 titles in his highly acclaimed Templar series of historical thrillers. His…

Rebecca-Jenkins
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Rebecca Jenkins

Rebecca Jenkins is a cultural historian and novelist living in Teesdale, County Durham. Her writing evolved from a passion for…

Alan Jenkins
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Alan Jenkins

Alan Jenkins is a poet who, since publishing his first collection in 1988, has been acclaimed for the way his…

Simon-Jenner
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Simon Jenner

Simon Jenner is a poet and commissioning editor, writing on music and poetry. Belatedly educated at Leeds and Cambridge, his…