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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.

Marcus Chown
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Marcus Chown

Marcus Chown is an award-winning writer, journalist and broadcaster. His books include Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You; We Need to…

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Rupert Christiansen

Over the last 30 years, Rupert Christiansen has enjoyed a varied career in the literary and artistic worlds, taking particular…

Regi Claire
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Regi Claire

Swiss-born, Scotland-based Regi Claire started off as a fiction writer before becoming a poet. Her second novel, The Waiting (Word…

Horatio Clare
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Horatio Clare

Horatio Clare is the bestselling author of two memoirs, Running for the Hills and Truant; three books of nature and…

PollyClark
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Polly Clark

Polly Clark is a poet. Her first collection of poetry, Kiss (Bloodaxe, 2000), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and…

Kevin-Clarke
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Kevin Clarke

Kevin Clarke wrote and directed his first play The Jackpot at the Finborough; as a result of its success he…

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Sally Pomme Clayton

Sally Pomme Clayton is a writer and storyteller who loves fairytales. She has published many children’s books including Greek Myths:…

Brian Clegg
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Brian Clegg

Brian Clegg is an award-winning popular science writer. He began writing professionally for computing magazines in the 1990s, providing features…

Katherine Clements
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Katherine Clements

Katherine Clements is a novelist and short story writer. Her debut novel, The Crimson Ribbon, was published in 2014 and…

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Carol Clewlow

Carol Clewlow started off her writing life as a journalist. She worked in Northern Ireland at the outbreak of the…

Nigel Cliff
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Nigel Cliff

Nigel Cliff is an acclaimed nonfiction writer specialising in cultural history and the history of exploration. His first book, The…

Sally Cline
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Sally Cline

Sally Cline, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, was born in London and held degrees and masters from Durham University…

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Ann Coburn

Ann Coburn is a children’s novelist who also writes for the theatre. Her fiction includes Glint (2005), a novel for…

Rebecca Colby
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Rebecca Colby

Rebecca Colby is an award-winning author, poet, and screenwriter. She has published over thirty-three children’s books with Collins, Macmillan, Viking/Penguin Random…

Rowan Coleman
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Rowan Coleman

Rowan Coleman is the internationally bestselling author and screenwriter of more than thirty cross-genre novels and screenplays. Her first novel…

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Beatrice Colin

Beatrice Colin was a novelist who also wrote extensively for radio. Her novels included The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite…

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Lizzie Collingham

Lizzie Collingham is a historian interested in linking the minutiae of daily life to the broad sweep of historical processes.…

Vanessa Collingridge
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Vanessa Collingridge

Dr Vanessa Collingridge is a broadcaster and writer, specialising in science, history and the environment. After graduating with a First…

Kate-Colquhoun
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Kate Colquhoun

Kate Colquhoun is a biographer and historian. Her first book A Thing in Disguise: the visionary life of Joseph Paxton…

Mary Colson
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Mary Colson

Mary Colson is a teacher and writer specialising in non-fiction. She has written over 50 non-fiction books for children on…

|Clare Colvin
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Clare Colvin

Clare Colvin is an acclaimed novelist and short-story writer, whose fiction focuses on themes of history, music and art. Her…

Brian Conaghan
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Brian Conaghan

Brian Conaghan is an award-winning author of ten young adult and middle-grade novels, which have been published in a variety…

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Tom Connolly

Tom Connolly is the author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Spider Truces and Men Like Air. His work is…

Elizabeth Cook
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Elizabeth Cook

Elizabeth Cook is a poet, fiction writer, and librettist, interested in the ways in which the past is continually being…