The phrase "a string of writers" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a series or group of writers, often implying a connection or shared characteristic among them.
Example: "The anthology features a string of writers who have all contributed to the theme of resilience."
Alternatives: "a series of writers" or "a lineup of writers".
During one two-year incarnation of her TV show she fired a string of writers, including her own brother.
A string of writers on the study of history has concluded that we can never know anything for sure about the past.
He was known as an early champion of a string of writers who are now household names, among them Mary Gordon, Maxine Hong Kingston and the Nobel Prize winners Toni Morrison and Gabriel García Márquez.
Judy Moir brought a string of writers to the small Edinburgh imprint including Michel Faber, whose sprawling Victorian epic The Crimson Petal and the White is an international sensation and translated into 18 languages.
It was this quality that kept a string of distinguished writers and publishers fascinated.
From Walt Whitman to Jonathan Lethem, Brooklyn has served as a muse to a string of celebrated writers.
In The Times of London, Marina Warner, who has written frequently about fairy tales, evoked a string of other writers who have also "re-enchanted the landscape".
And not only did I leave, a whole string of writers and editors left shortly afterwards.
In Turkey, a string of journalists and writers have been prosecuted for the crime of "insulting Turkishness", though both the president and prime minister say they want to abolish or amend the controversial article 301 of the penal code on which the prosecutions were based.Attempts to gag the press in democratic countries usually fail.
A Bangladeshi blogger was hacked to death by suspected Islamic extremists in Dhaka on Monday, the latest in a string of attacks on secular writers, including the murder of US-based author Avijit Roy during a visit to the country last month.
Islamist extremism has been on the rise in Bangladesh, a largely poor nation of 160 million people, where authorities have banned fundamentalist groups blamed for a string of assassinations of secular writers.
