RSL: Programmes and Writers Awards

To mark 200 years of the Royal Society of Literature, they are running a number of new programmes to honour and encourage writers and different stages of their careers.

Recommendations and/or applications for RSL International Writers, RSL Open and Sky Arts RSL Writers Awards are invited and can be made online.

RSL International Writers

A new lifetime literary honour the Society is awarding to non-UK writers, celebrating the power of literature to bring us together across borders, cultures, and languages.

For more information and to submit a recommendation, see the RSL website and complete your recommendation by 12 April 2021.

Sky Arts RSL Writers Awards

A new set of Awards in partnership with Sky Arts to celebrate and nurture British writers of colour at the beginnings of their careers with mentoring from RSL Fellows.

For more information and to submit a recommendation, see the RSL website and complete your recommendation by 30 April 2021.

RSL Open

Celebrating the great diversity of outstanding writers and writing in Britain, by electing 60 Fellows over two years from communities under-represented in UK literature.

For more information and to submit a recommendation, see the RSL website and complete your recommendation by 1 May 2021.