Elected: 2024
Lucy established the Encore Award in 1990 as a prize to honour the best second novel of the year. The award has been managed by the RSL since 2016 and has recently risen to £15,000 with £1,000 to be awarded to all four of its shortlisted books. Lucy is hugely proud of all the prize’s past winners, including Colm Tóibín, Ali Smith, Adam Foulds, Sunjeev Sahota, Neel Mukherjee and many others.
Fellows are nominated by peers and elected by our Council of writers – our governing Board. Being elected a Fellow of the RSL is a lifetime honour. This role gives them the opportunity to support other writers, readers and the future of literature. The RSL connects writers in the Fellowship to one another, and to a wider readership.
