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Our tutors are an essential part of the Faber Academy family – meet the writers who bring our courses to life.
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Richard Skinner
Richard is the director of our fiction programme and has been a hugely important part of Faber Academy since its inception in 2009. He is the creator of our flagship Writing a Novel course and has gone on to see a record number of our alumni find major publishing deals. He recently launched a series of ten masterclasses, distilling his experience of teaching on Writing a Novel for over a decade into advanced, intensive evening sessions on specific elements of the writing process.
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Marnie Riches
Fiction Development • Novel
Marnie Riches grew up on a rough estate in north Manchester. Exchanging the spires of nearby Strangeways prison for those of...
Rachael Allen
Poetry
Rachael Allen’s first collection of poems, KINGDOMLAND, is published by Faber & Faber. She is the co-author of a number of collaborative...
Nelle Andrew
Fiction Development • Novel
Nelle Andrew joined RML in 2020. She previously worked as an agent at Peters Fraser and Dunlop for eleven years, and prior to that at...
Katherine Angel
Fiction Development
Katherine Angel is the author of Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again (Verso, 2021), Daddy Issues (Peninsula Press, 2019), and...
Emily Barr
Fiction Development • Novel
Emily Barr is the author of eighteen published novels, and is currently working on the next two. Her first novel, Backpack...
Natasha Bell
Fiction Development • Novel
Natasha (she/her) is a cross-genre author and researcher. She's published two novels...
Peter Benson
Crime • Fiction Development • Novel
Peter has published eleven novels, both in the UK and in translation. His prize winning debut, The Levels, was published in...
Emily Berry
Poetry
Emily Berry’s first book of poems is Dear Boy, which won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Hawthornden Prize....
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