Dr Rachel Knightley

‘Thank you for helping me reframe uncertainty into potential. I’m allowing myself to explore my uniqueness and individuality.’
– Janet, USA

I'm Rachel, a fiction and non-fiction author, lecturer and business and personal coach. I'm also the founder of The Writers' Gym membership and podcast. There is nothing I love more (apart from writing) than supporting others to enhance, develop and celebrate their voice, whether that's for art, work or life, on the page or out loud.

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My lifelong love of communication and performance began with acting and directing in theatres, schools, workplaces, charities and universities. It formed my fascination with perception and reality (leading to my PhD and to my PGCerts in Business and Personal Coaching with Barefoot and Teaching Creative Writing with Cambridge): how do the roles we play inform our identity? How much can our self-belief inhibit, or enhance, how we bring that self to our life, work and art?

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‘I’ve explored a lot of therapy, done lots of deep work, but this coaching session was different… It’s unusual for me to have a moment of discovery that is so moving.’
– Maria G, Copenhagen

Alongside working with my clients – professional and personal coaching and, for under-18s, LAMDA Exams – you'll also find the themes of authenticity, identity and communication in my short story collections, Twisted Branches and Beyond Glass. Plus, of course, the stories I've contributed to anthologies such as British Fantasy Award-nominated Dreamland, Great British Horror 5 (Black Shuck Books) and Uncertainties Vol. 3 (Swan River Press).

I'm also the author of Your Creative Writing Toolkit and GCSE Drama Revision and Study Guide (Illuminate/Hodder) and write and present for magazines, Blu-ray extras and online series including Severin Films, Second Sight Films, Imprint Films, Starburst Magazine and YouTube, Writing Magazine, Jewish Renaissance and Indicator Films.

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