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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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Diana Evans
Fiction Development • Novel
Diana Evans is the award-winning, bestselling author of A House for Alice, Ordinary People, The Wonder and 26a...
Lucy Farfort
Fiction Development
Lucy Farfort is an illustrator and writer of mixed Caribbean/English heritage. Her illustrations combine traditional watercolour...
Kylie Fitzpatrick
Fiction Development • Novel
Kylie Fitzpatrick is the author of four novels, published in eleven languages. She has Masters and Doctoral degrees in Creative Writing and...
Dr Kate Forsyth
Fiction Development
Dr Kate Forsyth is an award-winning author, poet and performance storyteller called one of ‘the finest writers of this generation’...
James Geary
Non-fiction
James Geary is the author of Wit's End: What Wit Is, How It Works, and Why We Need It (W.W. Norton), I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World (HarperCollins), and Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists (Bloomsbury)...
Sue Gee
Fiction Development • Novel
Sue Gee is a novelist and short story writer who ran the MA Writing Programme at Middlesex University from 2000 till 2008...
Rebecca Giggs
Non-fiction
Rebecca Giggs is an author from Perth, Australia. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic...
Vesna Goldsworthy
Non-fiction
Vesna Goldsworthy was born in Belgrade but has lived in London since 1986. She writes in English, her third language. Two of her...
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