Our awards support writers at all stages of their careers. Each award has its own entry requirements, prize and deadlines. Explore our awards and prizes below.
We celebrate the work of new writers with the V.S. Pritchett Prize and RSL Giles St Aubyn Awards. We recognise the work of debut writers over the age of 50 with the RSL Christopher Bland Prize.
Each year we recognise the best second novel with the Encore Award. And we celebrate the powerful evocation of a place with the RSL Ondaatje Prize. We champion writers not resident in, or citizens of, the UK with the RSL International Writers Awards. We celebrate projects that extend the reach of literature with the RSL Literature Matters Awards. We recognise the work of writers, publishers and others to advance literature with the Benson Medal and as Companions of Literature.
Our Members are champions of literature. Their support makes our engagement work in schools and prisons possible and they enable us to celebrate literature in all its wonderful diversity. As a thank you, we give them all the joys of a literary festival and book club rolled into one, all year round.
