Elected: 2025
Jason Allen-Paisant is a Jamaican writer and award-winning poet, author of Self-Portrait as Othello, which won both the Forward and T.S. Eliot Prizes in 2023, and of Thinking with Trees. His latest book, The Possibility of Tenderness, is a work of literary nonfiction. He holds a doctorate from Oxford and is Professor of Critical Theory and Creative Writing at the University of Manchester. His work spans poetry, philosophy, and collaboration across the arts, and is widely anthologised.
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.
