Tutors
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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Karen McCarthy Woolf
Poetry
Born in London to English and Jamaican parents, Dr Karen McCarthy Woolf FRSL writes poetry, essays, memoir and fiction...
Holly McCulloch
Fiction Development • Novel
Having worked as an author, an editor, a reader and a book buyer, Holly has experienced many different aspects of the commercial...
Claire McGlasson
Fiction Development • Novel
Claire McGlasson's first novel, The Rapture, was a Sunday Times Book of the Year and shortlisted for the London Magazine...
Anthony McGowan
Fiction Development • Non-fiction • Novel
Anthony McGowan has written highly acclaimed and award winning fiction and non-fiction for adults, teenagers and younger children...
Claire McGowan
Crime • Fiction Development
Claire McGowan is a writer of crime and literary fiction, and has also published women's fiction as Eva Woods. She was...
Alice McIlroy
Novel
Alice McIlroy was born in London. She is a fiction writer and a graduate of Faber Academy’s novel-writing programme. She has a degree in English and a Graduate Diploma in Law, and has taught English in both London and Milan.
Christabel McKinley
Fiction Development
After various roles in translation rights, literary scouting and ESL teaching in Korea, Christabel joined David Higham Associates...
Patti Miller
Non-fiction
Patti Miller is the author of ten books, three of which are writing texts: Writing Your Life; The Memoir Book and Writing True Stories...
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