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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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Jane Rogers
Fiction Development • Novel
Jane Rogers writes novels, stories, and radio drama. She has set books in the present (Island) and the past (Mr Wroe’s Virgins) but she is increasingly drawn to future fiction...
Leone Ross
Fiction Development • Novel • Short Story
Leone Ross’s third novel, This One Sky Day (Faber/FSG) was published to critical acclaim in 2021. Her first novel, All the Blood Is Red...
Jessica Ruston
Fiction Development
Jessica Ruston is a screenwriter and novelist. Her first novel...
Richard Scott
Poetry
Richard Scott was born in London in 1981. His pamphlet Wound (Rialto) won the Michael Marks Poetry Award 2016 and his poem...
Kamila Shamsie
Fiction Development • Novel
Kamila Shamsie is the author of six novels: In the City by the Sea (shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize); Salt and...
Sharlene Teo
Fiction Development • Novel
Sharlene Teo is a Singaporean novelist and lecturer based in London. Her debut novel Ponti won the Deborah Rogers Writers' Award, was shortlisted for the Hearst Big Book Award and Edward Stanford Award...
Alexandra Sheppard
Novel
Alexandra Sheppard (she/her) was born in North London, where she stills lives with her family. Oh My Gods was her first YA Novel.
Helen Shipman
Fiction Development • Novel
Helen has been teaching people to write for thirty years. She has devised and delivered writing courses from adult classes...
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