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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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Helen Jukes
Helen Jukes has written two critically acclaimed books, A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings and Mother Animal, both of which...

Richard T. Kelly
Fiction Development • Novel
Richard T. Kelly is the author of the novels Crusaders (2008), The Possessions of Doctor Forrest (2011) and The Knives (2016)...

A. L. Kennedy
A.L. Kennedy was born in Dundee and has won a variety of UK and international book awards, including a Lannan Award, the Costa Prize...

Amy Key
Non-fiction
Amy Key is a writer based in London. She is the author of two collections of poetry, Luxe (Salt) and Isn't Forever (Bloodaxe). Arrangements in Blue (Jonathan Cape)...
Taran Khan
Non-fiction
Taran N. Khan is a journalist and writer based in Mumbai. She grew up in Aligarh and was educated in Delhi and London...

Frances Leviston
Fiction Development • Novel • Poetry • Short Story
Frances Leviston's first book of short stories, The Voice in My Ear, was published by Jonathan Cape in 2020. She has also...

Pippa Little
Poetry
Pippa Little is a Scots poet, editor, mentor and reviewer who is settled in Northumberland. Time Begins to Hurt, her third collection, was published recently by Arc. Overwintering (Carcanet)...

Kirsty Logan
Kirsty Logan’s latest books are the novel Now She is Witch and The Unfamiliar: A Queer Motherhood Memoir...
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