Benjamin Myers’s novels include The Gallows Pole, which won the Walter Scott Prize, and has been adapted for the BBC by Shane Meadows, and The Offing, which is in development as a film starring Helena Bonham Carter. Other titles include Pig Iron, winner of the inaugural Gordon Burn Prize, Beastings, recipient of the Portico Prize, and the non-fiction work Under The Rock. He is also widely published as a poet and journalist. His latest novel is Cuddy.
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.
