Published authors Anthony Quinn and Katharine Quarmby are this year's Royal Literary Fund Fellows (RLFs). As professional writers they are available to help students, on a free, one to one basis, with any aspect of academic writing. They do not, however, provide a proof-reading service. Sessions of up to 50 minutes are offered Monday to Thursday, 10:00-16:00 during term time. Students are strongly advised to send any texts or drafts 48 hours in advance of an appointment (send to lselife@lse.ac.uk) You can book a session by emailing lselife@lse.ac.uk (maximum three sessions per term).
Please note: Sessions with the RLFs take place in 20 Kingsway, and not in LSE LIFE. To attend an appointment with an RLFs, please go to the reception area on the ground floor of 20 Kingsway (corner entrance).
This year's Fellows
Katherine Quarmby
Katharine Quarmby is a writer, journalist and Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the London School of Economics. Her non-fiction works include Scapegoat: why we are failing disabled people, which won the Ability Media International Award, and No Place to Call Home: inside the real lives of Gypsies and Travellers (shortlisted for the Bread and Roses award). She has spent many years working as a journalist, as a producer for the BBC, a correspondent at the Economist, a contributing editor at Newsweek Europe, and is currently a contributor for Mosaic Science. She has particular interests in science, politics and social affairs, and has been shortlisted for the Paul Foot award for many years of campaigning journalism on disability affairs. In 2016 she also contributed a chapter on her mother's arrival in the UK as a de facto child refugee after the Second World War, to the anthology, A Country of Refuge (Unbound, 2016) and co-wrote two picture books, with the English Traveller, Richard O'Neill, published by Child's Play books.
Tony Quinn
Tony Quinn is a writer and an RLF fellow at the LSE. For fifteen years he was film critic of The Independent and contributed to a variety of newspapers and magazines including the New York Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, Esquire and Harper's. He is the author of five novels - The Rescue Man (2009), Half of the Human Race (2011), The Streets (2012), Curtain Call (2015), and Freya (2016). His next one, Eureka, will be published by Cape in 2017. He lives in London.