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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.

Ros Schwartz
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Ros Schwartz

Ros Schwartz is an award-winning translator from French. Acclaimed for her new version of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince…

Pamela Scobie
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Pamela Scobie

Pamela Scobie’s twin passions for writing and performing came together in 1984 when she was invited, on the strength of…

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Jeremy Seal

Jeremy Seal writes non-fiction books which combine travel and history, often taking the culture of Turkey – a life-long interest…

Jamie Lee Searle
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Jamie Lee Searle

Jamie Lee Searle is a literary translator, writer and mentor. She translates German-language and Portuguese-language writing into English for publishing…

Ian Seed
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Ian Seed

Ian Seed is an award-winning poet, translator, short-story writer, essayist and editor. With a surreal edge, his writing often exposes…

Rachel Seiffert
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Rachel Seiffert

Rachel Seiffert has published four novels, A Boy in Winter, The Dark Room, Afterwards, and The Walk Home, and one…

Esther-Selsdon
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Esther Selsdon

Esther Selsdon is a novelist, travel writer and journalist. She writes for film, radio and many of the UK’s broadsheet…

Cath Senker
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Cath Senker

An award-winning non-fiction writer and editor, Cath is also a university and ESOL teacher. Originally a project manager and editor…

Miranda Seymour
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Miranda Seymour

Miranda Seymour is a celebrated biographer and prizewinning memoir writer. Her books include lives of Robert Graves, Ada Lovelace, Mary…

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Jo Shapcott

Jo Shapcott won the Forward Prize for her collection, My Life Asleep, in 1999. For two years from 1998 she…

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Stephen Sharkey

Stephen Sharkey is a playwright. He grew up in Liverpool and then studied classics at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Throughout…

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Fiona Shaw

Fiona Shaw fell into writing by way of a crisis. Finding her life hijacked by a severe post-natal breakdown after…

Clare Shaw
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Clare Shaw

Clare Shaw lives in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire. They have three poetry collections with Bloodaxe – Straight Ahead, Head On…

Ann Shearer
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Ann Shearer

Ann Shearer lives in London, where she works as a Jungian analyst and teaches on different psychotherapy training courses. Earlier…

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Dave Sheasby

Dave Sheasby wrote for radio, television and theatre for a number of years and also directed and produced work for…

Nikki Sheehan
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Nikki Sheehan

Nikki Sheehan is an award-winning YA author, journalist, mentor and creative writing teacher. She has published six books, both fiction…

Dyan Sheldon
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Dyan Sheldon

Dyan Sheldon has written over fifty titles, ranging from picture books and children’s fiction to young adult and adult novels.…

Jane Shilling
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Jane Shilling

Jane Shilling is a critic and columnist, and the author of two books of memoir, The Fox in the Cupboard…

Henry Shukman
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Henry Shukman

Henry Shukman wrote a travel book Sons of the Moon (Flamingo) at the age of nineteen, followed by Travels with…

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John Siddique

John Siddique is the author of Signposts of The Spiritual Journey, a book on accessing greater meaning in our lives…

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Shelley Silas

Shelley Silas writes for theatre, radio and television, and has also written a number of short stories. Her stage plays…

Chris Simms
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Chris Simms

Chris Simms writes tense thrillers mostly set in and around Manchester, the area where he lives. However, his debut novel Outside…

Clive Sinclair
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Clive Sinclair

Clive Sinclair was the author of 14 books, including the novels Bibliosexuality, Blood Libels, Cosmetic Effects and Augustus Rex. He…

Umi Sinha
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Umi Sinha

Newhaven, East Sussex

I wanted to be a writer from the age of six. My childhood home on a remote naval base in…