Elected: 2023
Carys Bray is a short story writer and novelist. Her short fiction has been published in a variety of magazines and anthologies, and stories from her prize-winning collection Sweet Home were broadcast on BBC Radio. Her debut novel, A Song for Issy Bradley, was shortlisted for several awards including the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Costa First Novel Award. It won the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award and was a R4 ‘Book at Bedtime’. She is also the author of The Museum of You and When the Lights Go Out.
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.
