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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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Marina Benjamin

Marina Benjamin worked as a journalist before turning to non-fiction and, later, memoir. She  has served as arts editor of…

Melissa Benn
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Melissa Benn

Melissa Benn is the author of seven works of nonfiction and two novels. Her acclaimed nonfiction includes School Wars: The…

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Sophia Bennett

Sophia Bennett is an award-winning children’s novelist. Her first book, Threads (Chicken House, 2009) won the Times/Chicken House children’s fiction…

Andrea Bennett
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Andrea Bennett

Andrea Bennett is a novelist who also writes short stories, short plays, flash fiction and nonfiction. Her first novel, Galina…

Peter-Benson
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Peter Benson

Peter Benson is a novelist and dramatist. His first novel The Levels was a bucolic love story, his second A…

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Rachel Bentham

Rachel Bentham loves writing both prose and script. Sometimes she tinkers with poetry. She is an experienced radio writer, having…

Marcelle-Bernstein
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Marcelle Bernstein

Marcelle Bernstein is an internationally bestselling novelist, non-fiction writer and journalist who finds each discipline nourishes the others. She relishes…

Emily Berry
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Emily Berry

Emily Berry is a poet, editor and occasional prose writer. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she is…

Jasbinder Bilan
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Jasbinder Bilan

Jasbinder Bilan is an award-winning children’s author of numerous magical realist middle-grade novels. Her debut Asha and the Spirit Bird…

Jane-Bingham
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Jane Bingham

Jane Bingham is a versatile writer for children and teenagers. Over the past 12 years, she has written more than…

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Michael Bird

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Michael Bird is an independent art historian, with special interests in modern art, cultural history and the ‘art/life divide’. His…

Dea Birkett
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Dea Birkett

Dea Birkett is a writer and broadcaster. Her books include Serpent in Paradise (1997), shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel…

Julian Birkett
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Julian Birkett

Julian Birkett has over the years been a writer, documentary film maker and teacher. He has written TV scripts, a…

Penny Black
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Penny Black

Penny Black is an award-winning translator (from German), writer and dramaturg. Her love of theatre started in Vienna, where she…

Michael Blackburn
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Michael Blackburn

Poetry has always been Michael Blackburn’s main focus as a writer and, since his first pamphlet The Constitution of Things…

Mark Blacklock
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Mark Blacklock

Dr Mark Blacklock is a novelist, cultural historian and occasional journalist and lecturer. His first novel, I’m Jack, a fictionalised…

Robin-Blake
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Robin Blake

After reading English at Cambridge, and a few years in teaching, Robin worked for Capital Radio’s features unit as a…

Mark Blayney
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Mark Blayney

Mark Blayney writes fiction, poetry and journalism. Books include a volume of short stories Doppelgangers (Parthian, 2015) and of poetry,…

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Tessa Boase

Tessa Boase is an editor, journalist and author, specialising in popular history books for adults. After a career in national…

Robyn-Bolam
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Robyn Bolam

Robyn Bolam is a prize-winning poet and a librettist. Her poetry collections, published by Bloodaxe, are The Peepshow Girl (1989),…

Michael Bond
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Michael Bond

Michael Bond writes nonfiction books about human psychology and behaviour. He is interested in the many ways we are influenced…

Simon Booker
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Simon Booker

Novelist and TV screenwriter Simon Booker wrote prime time drama for BBC1, ITV and US TV. His credits included BBC1’s…

Craig Borlase
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Craig Borlase

Craig Borlase is a New York Times, Sunday Times and international bestselling ghostwriter, collaborating with others to create dramatic, engaging…

Jane Borodale
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Jane Borodale

Jane Borodale is a fiction writer with a particular interest in the history of ordinary people, often in the context…