Polly Samson, novelist, lyricist and journalist, is the author of two short story collections, Lying in Bed and Perfect Lives – a Sunday Times Fiction Choice of the Year – and novels Out of the Picture, The Kindness and A Theatre for Dreamers (to be published by Bloomsbury in 2019). She is the primary lyricist on David Gilmour’s On An Island and Rattle That Lock albums and Pink Floyd’s The Division Bell and The Endless River.
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.
