Elected: 2025
Kia Abdullah is the bestselling author of five novels. She has been longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award and won the Adult Fiction Diverse Book Award (2022) and a JB Priestley Award for Writers of Promise (2020). She has written for the New York Times, the Guardian and the FT among others, and has been likened in the Times to writers as diverse as John Grisham and Jane Austen.
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.
