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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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Max Porter
Fiction Development • Novel
Max Porter is the author of The Death of Francis Bacon, praised as ‘a miniature masterpiece’, and ‘a feat of empathy, imagination...
Chris Power
Fiction Development • Novel
Chris Power is the author of a novel, A Lonely Man, a Washington Post and New Statesman...
Sameer Rahim
Fiction Development • Non-fiction • Novel
Sameer Rahim is a novelist, critic and editor who has been working in literary journalism for nearly 20 years. His critically...
Caroline Raphael
Fiction Development
Caroline Raphael is a former BBC Head of Radio Drama, Commissioning Editor BBC Radio 4 and Editorial Director...
Keith Ridgway
Fiction Development • Novel
Keith Ridgway is from Dublin. He is the author most recently of A Shock (Picador, New Directions, 2021), which was the winner...
Denise Riley
Poetry
Denise Riley’s books are War in the Nursery: Theories of the Child and Mother (1983), ‘Am I That Name?’ Feminism and the Category of 'Women' in History...
Maurice Riordan
Poetry
Maurice Riordan was born in Co. Cork. His first book, A Word from the Loki (1995), was nominated for the T. S. Eliot Prize...
Yara Rodrigues Fowler
Yara Rodrigues Fowler grew up in South London. She is the author of two novels, Stubborn Archivist and there are more things...
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