Elected: 2020
Cressida Connolly has written novels, short stories, literary criticism and non-fiction. Her 2018 novel, After the Party, was a Sunday Times bestseller; while her debut collection of short stories, The Happiest Days, won the PEN/MacMillan Silver Pen Award. The daughter of the author Cyril Connolly, she lives on a confetti petal farm in Worcestershire.
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.
