We believe literature matters, and it is for everyone.
We work in partnership with other voices in the literary sector to deliver a range of engagement work, providing a platform to share and celebrate the benefits of reading and writing.
We are partnering with reading charity Give A Book to get books out to prisons.
We have teamed up with the prison magazine Inside Time to bring book recommendations directly from RSL Fellows to prison readers.
The project engaged young people from across the UK in creating visual and written artworks that engaged with issues of climate justice, and which sought to communicate directly with decision-makers at local and national levels in order to make change.
Our free digital literacy programme developed in partnership with the Royal Commonwealth Society (RCS)
RSL Fellows and young people spotlight writers from the past who had inspired them, but who were never elected to the RSL Fellowship
Alongside our Windrush 75th anniversary R.A.P. Party – featuring performances of specially-commissioned poems – we invited young people to submit their own Windrush-inspired poems
Pairs of poet ambassadors work together in a video series to inspire people to write their own poems reflecting Londoners’ lives during the COVID-19 pandemic, collected here and displayed on the map of London
RSL Fellows and young people spotlight writers from the past who had inspired them, but who were never elected to the RSL Fellowship
We rely on the generosity of donors, Members and Fellows, to carry out our work. A donation of any amount is always gratefully received. Your support enables us to develop our work in schools and expand our programme of talks, discussions and readings, taking them to lovers of literature all over the world. Our vision is of a world in which everyone has access to literature in its many and various forms; everyone can feel that literature is ‘for them’. Our mission is to widen engagement with, and access to, literature through innovative programmes, supporting readers and encouraging writers at all stages of their journey.
Your donations – large or small – make what we do possible, and allow us together to make literature for all.
