Announcement of 2025 Fellows and Honorary Fellows
On Wednesday 16 July 2025, the Royal Society inducted twenty-eight new Fellows and eight new Honorary Fellows into the society at the annual RSL summer party, hosted at the Garden Museum. At the event, new Fellows and Honorary Fellows elected in 2025 signed their names in the RSL roll book using a pen from its […]
RSL Scriptorium Awards
Ten writer residencies presented to professionally active writers in need of a place to write. The 2025 Prize This year marks the inaugural presentation of the RSL Scriptorium Awards, inviting applications from UK writers of any form with a successful track record in publishing or equivalent industries. The winners of the 2025 RSL Scriptorium Awards […]
2025 RSL Christopher Bland Prize Winner Announced
The RSL today announces the winner of the RSL Christopher Bland Prize for authors aged over 50. The prize, now in its seventh year, is an annual award of £10,000 given to a debut novelist or non-fiction writer first published aged 50 or over. Kathryn Faulke took this year’s prize for her memoir Every Kind […]
RSL Appoints New Director
The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) is pleased to announce that it has appointed a new Director. Laura Greenfield will take up the role in the summer, joining the RSL from Cambridge University Library. ‘The Royal Society of Literature has celebrated extraordinary writers for two centuries, and it is an absolute privilege to take this […]
2025 RSL Ondaatje Prize Winner Announced
We offer our warm congratulations to the winner of the 2025 Ondaatje Prize Carys Davies, who has won the £10,000 award for her novel Clear. On receiving her award, Davies said: ‘Thank you so much to the RSL, the Ondaatje family and this year’s judges. I’d also like to say a huge thank you to […]
RSL Fellows and Review Magazine Guest Curator Among Windham-Campbell Prize Winners
The RSL is incredibly proud that three of its Fellows have been honoured in this year’s Windham-Campbell Prizes, which celebrate eight writers across fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama. Each awardee receives $175,000 each, a sum that is intended to allow them the space and time to support their boldest, most vital work independent of financial […]
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RSL Jerwood Poetry Awards
Four annual awards offering a £10,000 stipend and mentoring to poets looking to make a step-change in their careers ‘The Clearing’ Throughout 2025, the winners of the 2024 RSL Jerwood Poetry Awards were encouraged to engage in their own individual creative pursuits before joining together to create one final collaborative work: ‘The Clearing’. This poem […]
May Membership Offer
Do you love books? Then you’ll want to be part of our club… If you sign up for a Royal Society of Literature Membership by the end of May, you get two years’ Membership for the price of one! Membership is just £60 a year, which gets you: Becoming a Member will also mean you support […]
Tom Vowler wins the 2024 V.S. Pritchett Prize.
The Royal Society of Literature is delighted to announce the winner of the V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize. The prize, worth £1,000, is an annual award for unpublished short stories between 2,000 to 4,000 words in length. From the shortlist of seven writers announced last week, this year’s judges Julia Armfield, Fred D’Aguiar and Juliet […]
V.S. Pritchett Prize 2024 Longlist
The longlist for the 2024 V.S. Pritchett Prize has been announced. The V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize is an annual award for unpublished short stories between 2,000 to 4,000 words in length. The winner will receive £1,000 and their entry will be published in Prospect magazine online and the RSL Review. This year’s judges Julia […]
Submissions for the Entente Littéraire Prize are now open.
We are delighted to announce that submissions to the Entente Littéraire Prize (Prix de l’Entente Littéraire), a new UK-France literary prize for writers of young adult literature, are now open. The submissions window will be formally opened at Receptions at the French Embassy in London and the British Embassy in Paris on 23 January as […]