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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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Sam Copeland
Fiction Development • Novel
Sam Copeland is an agent and director at Rogers, Coleridge and White. His first job in publishing was at Curtis Brown, where...

Julia Copus
Poetry
Julia Copus has published four collections of poetry, the latest of which, Girlhood (Faber 2019), was winner of America’s inaugural Derek Walcott Prize for best...

Fiona Cummins
Crime • Fiction Development • Novel
Fiona Cummins is a graduate of the Faber Academy Writing a Novel course and an award-winning former journalist. Her crime...

Claire Daverley
Novel
Claire Daverley was born in 1991 and has been writing stories ever since she was six years old...

Nicola Dinan
Novel
Nicola Dinan grew up in Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur and now lives in London...

Paul Dornan
Fiction Development
Paul Dornan has worked in the TV and film comedy world for over two decades as a writer, producer, director, teacher and mentor.

Louise Doughty
Fiction Development • Novel
Louise Doughty is the author of nine novels including the No 1 bestseller Apple Tree Yard, which was adapted as a four-part BBC One series...

Miranda Doyle
Non-fiction
Miranda Doyle's family come from the tiny island of Coney in Sligo Bay. She grew up in Edinburgh alongside three brothers and...
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