Elected: 2021
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Sally Bayley is a fiction and non-fiction writer. She is currently a Lecturer in English at Hertford College, Oxford. In 1990, Sally was the first child to go to university from the West Sussex Care system. She is currently completing a set of three coming of age stories that challenge our understanding of literary genre. Girl with Dove tells of a child’s escape into the world of literature. The second part, No Boys Play Here, combines forms of drawing and song with scenes from Shakespeare’s plays. Sally is now completing the third part, The Green Lady, which conjures forms of botanical knowledge and the wisdom of poetry.
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.
