
Royal Literary Fund
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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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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!

I’m going to be one of the children’s authors going to Hillsborough Castle this summer to celebrate Winnie-the-Pooh in partnership with Disney UK Historic Royal Palaces and the Royal Literary Fund

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

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.


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



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




Join us on tour in 2025: Book now for Bradford Literature Festival in July and find us at the British Library on Thursday and Southbank Centre, on 11th July, Edinburgh International Book Festival in August and Ilkley Lit Festival in October, all here bit.ly/3IeGFK4



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.


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-…


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…
