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Founded in 1790, the RLF helps writers in financial need and annually delivers over £5 million in grants, education, and outreach programmes.

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RLF Fellows join the Winnie-the-Pooh Hunny Hunt trail with summer storytelling in Owl’s Book Corner. A joyful literary adventure for all ages! 🐻

RLF Fellows join the Winnie-the-Pooh Hunny Hunt trail with summer storytelling in Owl’s Book Corner. A joyful literary adventure for all ages! 🐻
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It's my final week as a Royal Literary Fund fellow this week. Three years working with brilliant history students (and staff) at the University of Manchester. I'm going to miss it!

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Frantz Fanon was a revolutionary psychiatrist and anti-colonial writer. Join us on 3rd July British Library as we reflect on his legacy with writers Ekow Eshun, Clementine E. Burnley, Khaldoon Ahmed and the musician Donna Thompson - get your tickets here bit.ly/3T7setG

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RLF Fellow Trish Cooke on adapting Michael Abbensetts’ seminal Windrush generation play Alterations, originally written in 1978, for the National Theatre Read here 👉 rlf.org.uk/posts/making-t… 📸 - Marc Brenner Cherrelle Skeete as Darlene Holt & Colin Mace as Mr Nat.

RLF Fellow Trish Cooke on adapting Michael Abbensetts’ seminal Windrush generation play Alterations, originally written in 1978, for the National Theatre

Read here 👉 rlf.org.uk/posts/making-t…

📸 - <a href="/brennerphotos/">Marc Brenner</a> 

Cherrelle Skeete as Darlene Holt &amp; Colin Mace as Mr Nat.
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Victoria Amelina, killed by a Russian bomb in Ukraine on 1 July 2023, has posthumously won the 2025 Orwell Prize for Political Writing for Looking at Women, Looking at War. "An unforgettable picture of the human consequences of war." Kim Darroch, Chair of Judges William Collins Books

Victoria Amelina, killed by a Russian bomb in Ukraine on 1 July 2023, has posthumously won the 2025 Orwell Prize for Political Writing for Looking at Women, Looking at War.

"An unforgettable picture of the human consequences of war." Kim Darroch, Chair of Judges

<a href="/WmCollinsBooks/">William Collins Books</a>
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‘Before the red ink disappears’: artists and writers in Tehran face an uncertain future - moving and important reflections by our friend and writer Sana in The Observer bit.ly/4k6fBdl

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How can we create better infrastructure for British authors and readers across the north of England?John Siddique in The Bookseller essential reading bit.ly/4l4qH3W

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Calling all A-Levels teachers! Interested in developing your student’s writing skills? Join us in September 2025 at the British Library for Bridge workshops run by the Royal Literary Fund! Available for Year 12-13 and free to attend, book now at: shorturl.at/tkmTX

Calling all A-Levels teachers! Interested in developing your student’s writing skills?
Join us in September 2025 at the British Library for Bridge workshops run by the Royal Literary Fund! Available for Year 12-13 and free to attend, book now at: shorturl.at/tkmTX
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📚 My Writing Life: Annie Siddons ✍️ Playwright, screenwriter, and page-folder Annie Siddons shares what keeps her writing, the books she’s devouring, and why she doesn’t believe in writer’s block. Read the full article here - rlf.org.uk/posts/my-writi…

📚 My Writing Life: Annie Siddons ✍️
Playwright, screenwriter, and page-folder Annie Siddons shares what keeps her writing, the books she’s devouring, and why she doesn’t believe in writer’s block.  Read the full article here - rlf.org.uk/posts/my-writi…
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Introducing the RLF writers who will be celebrating Disney & Historic Royal Palaces’ Winnie-the-Pooh Hunny Hunt at Hillsborough Castle. You’ll find them in Owl's Book Corner every Saturday throughout the summer sharing some storytelling magic, including some Winnie-the-Pooh stories.

Introducing the RLF writers who will be celebrating <a href="/Disney/">Disney</a> &amp; <a href="/HRP_palaces/">Historic Royal Palaces</a>’ Winnie-the-Pooh Hunny Hunt at Hillsborough Castle. 

You’ll find them in Owl's Book Corner every Saturday throughout the summer sharing some storytelling magic, including some Winnie-the-Pooh stories.
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RLF Fellow Julian Evans explores Ukraine’s literary resistance and the legacy of writer & war crimes researcher Victoria Amelina, whose unfinished book Looking at Women, Looking at War bears witness to a nation’s struggle. #OrwellPrize #Ukraine rlf.org.uk/posts/ukraines…

RLF Fellow Julian Evans explores Ukraine’s literary resistance and the legacy of writer &amp; war crimes researcher Victoria Amelina, whose unfinished book Looking at Women, Looking at War bears witness to a nation’s struggle. 
 #OrwellPrize #Ukraine

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Our Save Our Saturdays flyers have arrived! Want to help distribute? Get in touch! Huge response to our Saturday at the Library writing comp — open to all ages, all genres, with illustrations welcome. Winning entries will be published!

Our Save Our Saturdays flyers have arrived! Want to help distribute? Get in touch! Huge response to our Saturday at the Library writing comp — open to all ages, all genres, with illustrations welcome. Winning entries will be published!
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I'm starting a 'Reading Round' group in Lancaster at the Gregson Centre on behalf of the Royal Literary Fund. It's FREE and open to anyone who has a passion and curiosity for reading. There's no homework and no prep (copies supplied). If you're near Lancaster, please spread the word.

I'm starting a 'Reading Round' group  in Lancaster at the <a href="/gregsoncentre/">Gregson Centre</a>  on behalf of the <a href="/royallitfund/">Royal Literary Fund</a>. It's FREE and open to anyone who has a passion and curiosity for reading. There's no homework and no prep (copies supplied). If you're near Lancaster, please spread the word.
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Join @writermosaic at the British Library tomorrow to mark the centenary of Frantz Fanon’s birth with a night of prose & music. Hosted by Colin Grant, ft. Ekow Eshun, Clementine E Burnley, Khaldoon Ahmed & Donna Thompson’s soulful sounds. Tickets here: writersmosaic.org.uk/events/frantz-…

Join @writermosaic at the <a href="/britishlibrary/">British Library</a> tomorrow to mark the centenary of Frantz Fanon’s birth with a night of prose &amp; music. Hosted by Colin Grant, ft. Ekow Eshun, Clementine E Burnley, Khaldoon Ahmed &amp; Donna Thompson’s soulful sounds.
Tickets here: writersmosaic.org.uk/events/frantz-…
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Just announced, the 2025 The Wainwright Prizes longlists! 🎉 Celebrating the finest nature, travel and environmental writing that encourages exploration of the great British outdoors, discover the nominees here: waterstones.com/category/cultu…

Just announced, the 2025 <a href="/wainwrightprize/">The Wainwright Prizes</a> longlists! 🎉

Celebrating the finest nature, travel and environmental writing that encourages exploration of the great British outdoors, discover the nominees here: waterstones.com/category/cultu…