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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.

Gwyneth-Lewis
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Gwyneth Lewis

Gwyneth Lewis is primarily a poet and has been writing since she was seven. She was National Poet of Wales…

Olivia Lichtenstein
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Olivia Lichtenstein

Olivia Lichtenstein is a BAFTA award-winning documentary filmmaker and novelist. At the BBC, she was editor of BBC ONE flagship…

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Joanne Limburg

Joanne Limburg began her writing life as a poet, winning an Eric Gregory award for her poetry in 1998. Her…

Pippa Little
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Pippa Little

Pippa Little is a poet, reviewer, translator and editor. The Spar Box (Vane Women, 2006) was a PBS pamphlet choice…

Sam Llewellyn
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Sam Llewellyn

Sam Llewellyn writes novels for adults and children, and works as a journalist, editor, lecturer and historian. His books have…

David Lloyd
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David Lloyd

David Lloyd is a prolific television scriptwriter who has written for EastEnders and Casualty, as well as over 60 episodes…

Simon Louvish
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Simon Louvish

Simon Louvish was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1947; his parents emigrated to Israel in 1949 where he was schooled…

Michelle Lovric
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Michelle Lovric

Michelle Lovric is a novelist, editor and poet, specialising in Venice, art and the history of medicine. Her first novel…

Rupert Loydell
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Rupert Loydell

Rupert Loydell is a poet, painter, editor and publisher, and senior lecturer in English with creative writing at Falmouth University.…

Andrew Lycett
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Andrew Lycett

Andrew Lycett is an author of non-fiction books, particularly biographies. He was educated at Oxford University, where he read Modern…

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Imogen Lycett Green

Imogen Lycett Green, an author and journalist, was brought up in Wiltshire and studied ancient history and archaeology at Birmingham…

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Sharon Maas

Sharon Maas is the author of three novels published by Harper Collins between 1999 and 2004: Of Marriageable Age, Peacocks…

Carl MacDougall
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Carl MacDougall

Carl MacDougall has written three prize-winning novels, four pamphlets and five collections of short stories, two works of non-fiction and…

Denis MacEoin
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Denis MacEoin

Denis MacEoin was born in Belfast in 1949, where he was taught English by the poet Michael Longley. In 1967,…

Martin MacInnes|Martin MacInnes
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Martin MacInnes

Martin MacInnes’s debut novel, Infinite Ground (Atlantic, 2016), was published to wide critical acclaim, appearing on many best-of-year lists, being…

Garry MacKenzie
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Garry MacKenzie

Garry MacKenzie is a prizewinning poet and nonfiction writer whose work focuses on landscape and the environment. His nonfiction book…

Rory MacLean
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Rory MacLean

Rory MacLean is one of Britain’s most expressive and adventurous nonfiction writers. His books – which have been translated into…

Alison MacLeod
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Alison MacLeod

Alison MacLeod is a leading novelist and short story writer, with a particular interest in the porous boundaries between realist…

|Kona Macphee
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Kona Macphee

Kona Macphee is a poet and self-described ‘thingwright’ who grew up in Australia and now lives in Perthshire. She received…

Richard Madden
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Richard Madden

Richard Madden is an award-winning travel writer and author who has written, co-written or ghost-written eight books. These include two…

Sarah Maguire
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Sarah Maguire

Sarah Maguire’s highly-acclaimed collections of poems included Spilt Milk (Secker, 1991) The Invisible Mender (Jonathan Cape, 1997) and The Florist’s at…

Harry Mann
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Harry Man

Harry Man is an award-winning poet, playwright and translator. His work has been published in newspapers and literary journals nationally…

Jack Mapanje
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Jack Mapanje

Jack Mapanje is a poet, linguist and human rights activist. His published books of poetry include: Of Chameleons and Gods…

Ian Marchant
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Ian Marchant

Ian Marchant is a writer and performer. He has published two novels, In Southern Waters (1999) and The Battle For…