Elected: 2025
Simon Savidge is a bibliophile, broadcaster and presenter. He has judged the Costa Book Awards, Portico Prize and Desmond Elliott Prize. He has appeared on the Booker Prize Live on BBC, recommended books on BBC 5 Live plus co-hosted Turn Up For The Books on BBC Sounds. He has co-presented three seasons of Sky Arts Book Club and hosted Sky Arts Live from Hay in 2023. His YouTube channel Savidge Reads has over 2.5 million views.
He has worked for Liverpool Library Service and as a project manager for Libraries Connected, where he has led on nationwide library focused projects including the Share The Vision Challenge, StoryTrails, BBC’s Novels That Shaped Our World and Our Freedom: Then and Now. He has also been a literary curator for Storyhouse and Chester Literature Festival and continues to host bookish events in libraries, bookshops and at literary festivals around the UK.
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.
