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How digital, mobile literature can foster gender equality

How digital, mobile literature can foster gender equality

Contributed by: Giulia Pelosi
Published: 04/04/2018
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By Giulia Pelosi, Worldreader Gender Specialist

Literature Matters: The democracy of reading

Contributed by: Philip Pullman
Published: 26/02/2018
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For the second of our Literature Matters event RSL Vice President Philip Pullman discusses the importance of reading.

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David Morley, an ecologist and naturalist by background, is Professor of Writing at Warwick University. His poetry collections include The Magic of What’s There, The Invisible Gift, The Gypsy and the Poet, The Invisible Kings, Scientific Papers, Enchan …


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  • Maureen Duffy on the banning of ‘The Microcosm’ for Banned Books Week 2018
    Maureen Duffy on the banning of ‘The Microcosm’ for Banned Books Week 2018

    September 24, 2018

    Read a mini interview, in our online library, with RSL Vice President Maureen Duffy, about the banni …

  • RSL Ondaatje Prize 2019 – open for submissions
    RSL Ondaatje Prize 2019 – open for submissions

    September 18, 2018

    The £10,000 RSL Ondaatje Prize 2019, for a distinguished work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry, bes …

  • RSL Literature Matters Awards 2019 – open for submissions
    RSL Literature Matters Awards 2019 – open for submissions

    September 10, 2018

    We are delighted to announce that the RSL Literature Matters Awards 2019 are now open for submission …

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    RSL condemns attack on Bookmarks Bookshop

    August 7, 2018

    On Saturday 4 August, The Bookmarks Bookshop in central London was was attacked by a group who attem …

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  • Read our mini interview with RSL Vice President @MaureenPDuffy on the banning of her novel 'The Microcosm' in 1966.… https://t.co/O5xlOMpPEz
    September 24, 2018
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