Elected: 2024
Jacqueline Crooks is a writer of novels, short stories and radio dramas. Fire Rush, her novel, was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Jhalak Prize, the Authors Club Best First Novel Award and the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize, and selected as an Observer Best Debut Novel of the Year. For her short stories, published in her collection The Ice Migration, she has been nominated for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and the BBC National Short Story Award.
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.
