We believe writers matter because writing matters.
Professional writers should be able to sustain themselves and thrive, even when times are hard. The Royal Literary Fund offers financial support, advice and earning opportunities across the UK, enabling writers to keep writing and to share their skills with others.
Supporting Writers
We offer a range of grants to professional writers needing short-term to long-term financial support. They might be facing an unexpected bill, reduced income, or unable to write due to a change in circumstances, sickness, disability, or age.
The RLF also offers earning opportunities for professional writers through our Fellowship scheme who work as Fellows sharing their expertise with others. We place writers in over 100 universities across the UK, helping students to develop their academic writing.
News & Features
What exactly is Super Thursday? Caroline Sanderson on Autumn Publishing Trends
In the first of our new seasonal content series, Caroline Sanderson, Associate Editor of industry magazine The Bookseller, gives us…
RLF Fellows’ News: October 2024
News from our RLF Fellows and writers for October 2024, including books, events, awards, press coverage and reviews.
New term, new tips – five ways to access our RLF student resources
As universities and colleges across the UK prepare for a new academic year, our selection of RLF resources helps students…
T.S.Eliot Prize shortlist and Ashdown Forest poetry competition winners announced
This week saw the shortlist for the prestigious T.S. Eliot Prize announced, along with the winners of Ashdown Forest’s inaugural…
How to cultivate resilience: a toolkit for writers
Writer, coach and RLF Fellow Katherine Clements on how to navigate a creative life
Welcome to our new trustees
Announcing the appointment of Mark Gardiner, Sammia Hamer, Dotti Irving, and Rosalynn Try-Hane to the RLF’s General Committee.
Carlo Gébler on his mother Edna O’Brien
Originally published in the Irish Times, writer Carlo Gébler’s personal reflections about the death of his mother, Edna O’Brien.
My Writing Life: Gordon Meade
“I suppose that my writing life, like my life in general, has been somewhat split between two time zones, B.C.…
Walk good: in Britain’s colonial countryside
WritersMosaic’s next live event takes place at the British Library on Tuesday 24th September, from 7pm.
Bridge, our school workshops programme
“We’re in the transformation business.” RLF Fellow and poet Donny O’Rourke on Bridge, our school workshops programme.
Teaching life blogging skills to children in care
RLF Writing For Life Fellow on working with young people living in foster care, in partnership with social care service…
How biscuits saved my career
“I thought to myself, don’t people learn better when they’re having fun?” Crime writer Chris Simms on being a Consultant…
Welcome to our new RLF Fellows
At the end of last month, we welcomed 44 new Fellows to the RLF with our yearly induction event at…
Seven tips to help you improve your academic writing
Tips from our RLF Fellows for students and those interested in academic writing.
Education
Our commitment to advancing public education begins with our Fellowship scheme. Find out how we work with educational institutions across the UK, our Bridge school workshops and consultancy programme, and how writers can apply to the Fellowship scheme.
If you’re a student looking for help with your academic writing, we also offer a range of free online writing tools and resources.
Workplace & Community
Our Writing for Life programme enables writers to share their skills in their local community. They are trained to deliver workshops on writing for self-expression, building writing skills in the workplace, and hosting reading round groups for their local communities.
WritersMosaic
WritersMosaic, a division of the Royal Literary Fund, is an online magazine and developmental resource focused on UK writers of the global majority, reflecting the changing reality of contemporary Britain, from its past and into its future.
