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Jay Bernard is a writer from London. Their work is multi-disciplinary, critical, queer and rooted in the archives. Works include Surge: Side A, a multi-media piece (forthcoming as a collection in 2019), which won the Ted Hughes Award 2018, and short film Something Said, a queer response to the historical legacy of the New Cross fire in 1981. They are the author of three pamphlets, The Red and Yellow Nothing (2016), English Breakfast (2013), and Your Sign is Cuckoo, Girl (2008). Jay works as an archivist at Statewatch and a film programmer at BFI Flare, London’s LGBTQ+ film festival, and is co-editor of Oxford Poetry.
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.
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.
