Nelle Andrew is an agent who was crowned Literary Agent of the Year in 2021 at the British Book Awards and was a Bookseller Rising Star in 2016. She represents an array of authors including a winner of the Costa Debut Fiction Award, a longlistee for the Women’s Prize and Walter Scott Prize, two HWA Goldsboro Award winners, several British Book Award nominees. She helped build the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize for Unpublished Authors into one of the most eminent prizes of its nature and sat on the original board for the Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer’s Award. She also established the Morley Prize for Unpublished Writers of Colour and the Stylist Feminist Fiction Prize.
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.
