On the Importance of Reading

Contributor/s : Malorie Blackman

Malorie Blackman, spoke to students at Skinners’ Academy in Hackney in July 2013.

Through its school outreach programme, the RSL is working to widen access to literature. The RSL aims to provide state school pupils with the opportunity to see some of the country’s greatest writers discuss their works and, in doing so, promote a culture of reading and writing in the whole school community.

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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.