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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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Mario Petrucci

Mario Petrucci is a poet and educator of international standing, and a leading exponent for site-specific and public poetry in…

Mike Phillips
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Mike Phillips

Mike Phillips was born in Georgetown, Guyana. He came to Britain as a child, and went to school and university…

Katherine Pierpoint
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Katherine Pierpoint

Katherine Pierpoint’s poetry collection, Truffle Beds (Faber, 1995), has won various awards, and was recommended by the Poetry Book Society. Her work…

John-Pilkington
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John Pilkington

John Pilkington is a novelist, children’s author and playwright. He has published numerous historical novels both here and in the…

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Clare Pollard

Clare Pollard was born in Bolton in 1978. Her first collection of poetry The Heavy-Petting Zoo (Bloodaxe, 1998) was written…

Ian Pople
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Ian Pople

Dr Ian Pople’s first collection of poetry, The Glass Enclosure (Arc), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and shortlisted for…

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Jennifer Potter

Curiosity about people and places inspires Jennifer Potter’s fiction and non-fiction, which she approaches with equal pleasure. Best known as…

Phoebe Power
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Phoebe Power

Phoebe Power is a poet from Cumbria. She is the author of Shrines of Upper Austria (Carcanet, 2018), which received…

Chris Power
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Chris Power

Chris Power is the author of a collection of short stories, Mothers (Faber & Faber, 2018), which was longlisted for…

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Susan Price

Susan Price is a critically acclaimed writer of fiction for children and young adults. She has written more than 60…

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Lois Pryce

Lois Pryce is the author of three travel memoirs about her solo motorcycle adventures throughout the world. Her first book,…

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Kate Pullinger

Kate Pullinger is a novelist and digital writer. For more than a decade now she has been at the forefront…

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Sue Purkiss

Sue Purkiss writes books for children and young adults. Recent publications include Emily’s Surprising Voyage, which was set on the…

Katharine Quarmby
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Katharine Quarmby

Katharine Quarmby has written non-fiction, short stories and books for children. Her non-fiction works include Scapegoat: Why We Are Failing…

Anthony Quinn
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Anthony Quinn

Anthony Quinn was born in Liverpool in 1964. He was educated at the Catholic grammar school St Francis Xavier’s College…

Anthony J Quinn
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Anthony J Quinn

Anthony J. Quinn is the internationally acclaimed author of ten novels, mostly in the crime fiction and historical fiction genres.…

Simon-Rae
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Simon Rae

Simon Rae is a poet, playwright, prose writer and broadcaster. For a decade he wrote topical poems for the Guardian,…

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David Rain 1961-2015

David Rain was a novelist whose work included The Heat of the Sun (2012), which tells the story of ‘Trouble’,…

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Anna Ralph

Anna Ralph (aka Barker) is an award-winning novelist and journalist. Her first novel The Floating Island (Arrow, 2008) won a…

Chitra Ramaswamy
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Chitra Ramaswamy

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I am the author of two nonfiction books and a journalist with twenty years’ experience. My first book, Expecting: The…

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Ravi Randhawa

Ravinder Randhawa is a highly regarded writer of novels and short stories whose work has been translated into several languages.…

Tessa-Ransford
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Tessa Ransford, OBE

Tessa Ransford was an established poet, translator, literary editor, reviewer and cultural activist on many fronts for over 40 years,…

Leila Rasheed
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Leila Rasheed

Leila Rasheed writes literature for children and teenagers. Her first book, Chips, Beans and Limousines, was published by Usborne in…

Jini Reddy
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Jini Reddy

Jini Reddy is an award-winning author and journalist. Her most recent book, Wanderland (Bloomsbury 2020) was shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman…