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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.

Trevor Day
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Trevor Day

Trevor Day is a non-fiction writer who has written widely across the life sciences and earth sciences. He now specialises…

Susie Day
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Susie Day

Susie Day is a children’s author, writing novels for readers aged eight to twelve, and for teenagers and young adults.…

Martin Day
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Martin Day

Martin Day has been writing professionally for almost thirty years. He is the author of twelve novels and audiobooks, and…

Meaghan Delahunt
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Meaghan Delahunt

Meaghan Delahunt is a novelist and short story writer. Her work has been widely translated and her stories anthologised and…

Emily Diamand
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Emily Diamand

Emily Diamand is an author of children’s fiction who writes fantasy adventure stories with an environmental theme. Her first novel…

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Christie Dickason

Christie Dickason has written nine internationally published novels (Century, Random House, HarperCollins) as well a recent novel for Young Adults,…

Paul Dodgson
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Paul Dodgson

Paul Dodgson is a writer, radio producer, musician and teacher with a special interest in life-writing and scriptwriting. His book On…

Michael Donaghy 1954-2004
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Michael Donaghy

Michael Donaghy, poet, musician, critic, and editor, was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1954 and moved to Britain…

John Donnelly
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John Donnelly

John Donnelly is a playwright. He works in theatre and more recently, television and film. His plays include The Pass…

|Anne Donovan
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Anne Donovan

Anne Donovan is a novelist and short-story writer. She is the author of the short-story collection Hieroglyphics (2001) and the…

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Paul Dowswell

A former senior editor with Usborne Publishing, Paul Dowswell has written over 70 books, including ten historical fiction novels for…

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Jane Draycott

Jane Draycott is a poet whose collections from Carcanet Press include The Occupant, Over (nominated for the 2009 T.S. Eliot…

Alan Drury
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Alan Drury 1949-2019

Alan Drury was a dramatist for over 30 years, and had well over 60 scripts presented in theatre and on…

Helena-Drysdale
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Helena Drysdale

Helena Drysdale writes non-fiction — a hybrid of travel, memoir, history, biography and journalism. Looking for George: love and death…

Christy Ducker
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Christy Ducker

Christy Ducker is the author of four poetry books and pamphlets: Messenger (Smith Doorstop, 2017), Heroes (Smith Doorstop, 2016), Skipper…

Sophie Duffy
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Sophie Duffy

Sophie Duffy is an award-winning novelist who writes about the complications and joys of family relationships. As a Generation X-er,…

Ruth Dugdale
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Ruth Dugdall

Ruth Dugdall is an internationally published novelist and short-story writer. Her seven novels are inspired by her interest in the…

Sharon Duggal
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Sharon Duggal

Sharon Duggal writes novels and short stories. Her second novel, Should We Fall Behind (Bluemoose, 2020), was shortlisted for the Royal Society…

Ian-Duhig
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Ian Duhig

Ian Duhig worked with homeless people for 15 years before becoming a full-time writer in 1994 and a concern with…

Joyce Dunbar
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Joyce Dunbar

Joyce Dunbar is primarily a children’s writer. She has published more than 70 books which have been translated into many…

Sarah-Duncan
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Sarah Duncan

Sarah Duncan is a novelist who also writes short stories and scripts. Her first novel Adultery for Beginners (Hodder &…

Suzannah Dunn
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Suzannah Dunn

Suzannah Dunn has published eleven novels and two collections of short fiction. Her books include: Quite Contrary (Flamingo,1992), which won…

Heather-Dyer
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Heather Dyer

Heather Dyer is an award-winning children’s author. The Fish in Room 11 (Chicken House/Scholastic) won the Highland book awards in…

Elanor Dymott
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Elanor Dymott

Elanor Dymott is the author of three novels, Every Contact Leaves a Trace (Cape, 2012, and in translation), Silver and…