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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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Jessica Moor
Fiction Development • Novel
Jessica Moor grew up in south-west London and studied English at Cambridge before completing...
Sarah Moss
Fiction Development • Novel
Sarah Moss is the author of eight novels., most recently The Fell and Summerwater...
Laura Mucha
Fiction Development • Non-fiction • Poetry
Laura Mucha is an ex-lawyer turned award-winning poet and author whose books include Rita’s Rabbit, Dear Ugly Sisters...
Kate Murray-Browne
Fiction Development • Non-fiction • Novel
Kate Murray-Browne is a writer and editor. Her first novel, The Upstairs Room, was published by Picador in 2017 and was a Times’ Book of the Year, and her second, One Girl Began, will be published in 2024....
Daljit Nagra
Poetry
Daljit Nagra has published four poetry collections with Faber & Faber. He has won the Forward Prize for Best Individual Poem...
David Nicholls
Novel
David Nicholls is the bestselling author of Sweet Sorrow, Us, The Understudy and Starter for Ten. One Day was published...
Margie Orford
Fiction Development • Non-fiction
Margie Orford is an internationally acclaimed writer. Her Clare Hart novels – a literary crime fiction series that explores violence...
Don Paterson
Poetry
Don Paterson is the author of numerous works of poetry and non-fiction; his writing has won many awards, including the Whitbread Poetry Prize, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Costa Poetry Award, all three Forward Prizes...
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