Elected: 2022
For 35 years Julian May has been making literary programmes for BBC Radio, bringing writers to public attention in Kaleidoscope, The Verb, Night Waves and Front Row. He also makes features, commissioning writers to create work specifically for radio. He has won the Premios Ondas Documentary and Sony Gold Feature awards. Julian grew up in Cornwall and studied in Aberystwyth. He received an Eric Gregory Award for The Earliest Memory (Peterloo Poets)…and is still working on that difficult second collection.
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.
