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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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Margaret Wilkinson
Fiction Development
Recently retired senior lecturer in prose and scriptwriting on the MA in Creative Writing at Newcastle University, where she has taught...
Andrew Wilson
Crime • Fiction Development • Novel
Andrew Wilson is a novelist, biographer and journalist. His first book, Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith (Bloomsbury)...
Trevor Wood
Crime • Fiction Development • Novel
Trevor Wood’s first novel, The Man on the Street, set in his home city of Newcastle, won the Crime Writers’ Association’s John Creasey New Blood Dagger for best debut and the Crimefest...
Michael Wynne
Michael Wynne is an Olivier and BAFTA winning playwright and screenwriter from Birkenhead. He wrote his first play The Knocky at...
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