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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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Charles Jennings

Charles Jennings is a writer and journalist whose books range from the bestselling travelogue Up North (Little, Brown, 1994), to…

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Liz Jobey

Liz Jobey has worked as an editor and a writer on national newspapers including the Sunday Times, the Independent on Sunday, the Guardian and,…

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Curtis Jobling

Curtis Jobling is an award-winning author and illustrator of numerous books for children of all ages, as well as creator…

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Catherine Johnson

Catherine Johnson has been writing professionally for close to 20 years. As well as books she writes screenplays for film…

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Judith Johnson

Judith Johnson is a freelance writer and teacher. She has written more than 20 plays, including Uganda for the Royal National Studio/Royal…

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Doug Johnstone

Doug Johnstone has worked as a freelance arts journalist since 1999, primarily covering music and literature, and he is currently…

Vanessa-Jones
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Vanessa Jones

Vanessa Jones is a fiction writer of novels, short stories and screenplays, but she began her writing career with a…

Kathleen-Jones
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Kathleen Jones

Born and brought up on a hill farm in the north of England, Kathleen Jones spent several years in Africa…

Nicolette-Jones
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Nicolette Jones

Nicolette Jones is a writer, journalist and broadcaster who has worked for all the national broadsheets and the book-trade press.…

Tobias Jones
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Tobias Jones

Tobias Jones was born and brought up in Somerset. After working on the London Review of Books and the Independent…

Cynan Jones
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Cynan Jones

Cynan Jones chiefly writes short novels. His first book The Long Dry won a 2007 Society of Authors Betty Trask…

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Alison Joseph

Alison Joseph is a London-based novelist and radio dramatist.  She is the author of a series of detective novels featuring…

Anjali Joseph
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Anjali Joseph

Anjali Joseph is a prizewinning novelist. She is interested in how art can attune a reader to experience more joy.…

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Morag Joss

Morag Joss began writing in 1996 when her first short story won an award in a national competition. Starting to…

Marcy Kahan
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Marcy Kahan

Marcy Kahan is an award-winning radio and theatre playwright and screenwriter. Her plays include: 20 Cigarettes (Soho Theatre, 2007), a…

Kapka-Kassabova
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Kapka Kassabova

Kapka Kassabova is a travel writer, poet and novelist. Her childhood memoir Street Without a Name (Portobello, 2008) was shortlisted…

Marianne Kavanagh
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Marianne Kavanagh

Marianne Kavanagh is an author and journalist. Her first two novels were translated into eight languages and sold all over…

Judith Kazantzis
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Judith Kazantzis

Judith Kazantzis is a British poet who is also a fiction-writer and printmaker. She lives in East Sussex. Her first…

|Basir Kazmi
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Basir Sultan Kazmi, MBE

Born in Pakistan in 1955, Basir studied and taught English at the Government College in Lahore. He edited Ravi (1974)…

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Brian Keaney

Brian Keaney is an award-winning children’s author. He has written 20 novels for young people, which have been translated into…

John-Keay
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John Keay

John Keay has been a professional writer, scholar and traveller for more than 40 years. Once a political journalist (principally…

Greg Keen
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Gregory Keen

Greg Keen is a crime writer with a particular interest in urban noir. Greg won the Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger…

Jim-Kelly
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Jim Kelly

Jim Kelly was born in 1957, and is the son of a Scotland Yard detective. His first crime mystery The…

Helen Kelly
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Helen Kelly

Helen Kelly has written theatre for casts of one and casts of sixty, including a number of pieces for the…