Elected: 2025
M. John Harrison has been writing fiction since 1966. He has also written about fiction–in the TLS, Guardian, Telegraph, NYT & elsewhere–since 1989; and was a judge for the 2022 Booker Prize. His previous books include Climbers, which won the 1989 Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Writing; an “anti-memoir”, Wish I Was Here, 2023; and The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again, awarded the Goldsmiths Prize for experimental & innovative fiction in 2020.
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.
