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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.

Patrick Ness
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Patrick Ness

Patrick Ness is a novelist and short story writer. He knows this because he’s published a novel and a short…

Courttia Newland
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Courttia Newland

Courttia Newland was born in West London where he still lives and which inspires much of his writing. He is…

Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin
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Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin

Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin is the first Irish-language RLF Fellow. She is an acclaimed singer, songwriter and author, specialising in Irish-language…

Barbara Norden
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Barbara Norden

Bara Norden is a writer of plays, many of which tend towards the comic and fantastical. Her first commissioned play,…

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Stephanie Norgate

Stephanie Norgate is a playwright and poet. Her first play, The Greatest Gift, broadcast on BBC R4, won a Radio…

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Lizzie Nunnery

Lizzie Nunnery’s work as a playwright has often explored historical settings and migrant characters. Her first play Intemperance (Liverpool Everyman, 2007), was…

Alex Nye
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Alexandra Nye

Alex Nye is an award-winning writer. Her first novel Chill (Floris, 2006) won the 2007 Royal Mail Scottish Children’s award,…

Sanjida O'Connell
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Sanjida O’Connell

Sanjida O’Connell is an award-winning novelist and non-fiction writer. Her forthcoming novel is a psychological thriller called Bone by Bone,…

Catherine O'Flynn
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Catherine O’Flynn

Catherine O’Flynn is a novelist. Her debut novel What Was Lost (Tindal Street, 2007) won the Costa First Novel award,…

Donny O'Rourke
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Donny O’Rourke

Donny O’Rourke’s ten poetry collections, the three CDs featuring his song lyrics and his television films and works for the…

Simon Okotie
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Simon Okotie

Simon Okotie is a fiction writer and essayist. He is the author of Whatever Happened to Harold Absalon?, In the…

Peter Oswald
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Peter Oswald

Peter Oswald is a playwright, poet and performer. He was writer in residence at Shakespeare’s Globe. Three of his plays…

James-Owen
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James Owen

James Owen is an author and a journalist. His first book A Serpent in Eden (Little, Brown, 2005) told the…

Julianne Pachico
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Julianne Pachico

Julianne Pachico is a novelist and short-story writer. She was born in Cambridge, England, and grew up in Cali, Colombia.…

Louise Page
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Louise Page

Louise Page worked primarily as a dramatist but also published a novel and short stories. Her stage work included Salonika…

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William Palmer

William Palmer is a novelist, short-story writer and poet. His first novel The Good Republic (Secker and Warburg, 1990) deals…

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Nii Ayikwei Parkes

Nii Ayikwei Parkes is a writer, editor, socio-cultural commentator and broadcaster. A 2007 recipient of Ghana’s national ACRAG award for…

Ian-Parks
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Ian Parks

Described by Chiron Review as ‘the finest love poet of his generation’, Ian Parks was one of the Poetry Society…

Mary Paulson-Ellis
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Mary Paulson-Ellis

Mary Paulson-Ellis is an award-winning novelist writing across the genres of crime, historical and literary fiction. Her critically acclaimed debut,…

Jenny Pausacker
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Jenny Pausacker

Jenny Pausacker has worked full-time as a freelance writer since 1980. During that time she has published 67 novels, seven…

Tim-Pears
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Tim Pears

Born in 1956, Tim Pears grew up in Devon, left school at 16 and worked in a wide variety of…

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Tina Pepler

Tina Pepler began her writing career as a radio dramatist and still loves that medium, though she is now just…

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Shyama Perera

Shyama Perera left school at 16 and got a job in the London Transport typing pool because she needed typing…

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Pascale Petit

Pascale Petit is a poet who was born in Paris and lives in London. Her collections include Fauverie (2014), What…