For many people, the world of literature can seem remote and forbidding. The RSL’s engagement programme seeks to change this, making it easy to begin or sustain your reading and writing life. We work with schools and prisons because we believe that everyone should have access to books.
Through workshops and author visits we encourage young people to gain confidence in their creativity and see writing as a possible career option.
We work with Give a Book, Prison Reading Groups and prisons magazine Inside Time to bring books and their writers together with people in prisons.
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 do not receive any government funding.
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.
