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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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Lucie Brownlee
Non-fiction • Novel
Lucie is a multi-award-winning writer based in County Durham. Her memoir Life After You was published in 2014 by Penguin Random House. Based on her award-winning...
Judith Bryan
Fiction Development • Novel • Short Story
Judith Bryan’s 1998 Saga Prize debut winning novel, Bernard and the Cloth Monkey, was...
Victoria Adukwei Bulley
Poetry
Victoria Adukwei Bulley is a poet, writer, and artist. Her work has appeared widely in publications including The White Review...
Lucy Caldwell
Fiction Development
Born in Belfast in 1981, Lucy Caldwell is the multi–award winning author of three novels, several stage plays and radio dramas...
John Challis
Poetry
John Challis lives and works in the North East. His debut collection, The Resurrectionists (Bloodaxe, 2021), was a poetry book of the month in the Guardian and highly commended in the 2021 Forward Prizes for...
Arabel Charlaff
Fiction Development • Non-fiction • Novel
Arabel is an accredited and experienced psychotherapist. Before training as a therapist, she worked in publishing for over a...
Chloe Daykin
Fiction Development • Novel
Chloe Daykin is a critically acclaimed and award-winning Faber children’s author (and occasional playwright)...
Catherine Cho
Fiction Development • Non-fiction • Novel
Catherine Cho is a literary agent and founder of Paper Literary. After a background in law and public affairs, she began her...
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