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
Dramatists gather as Joe Ward Munrow named first Robert Holman Award recipient
On World Theatre Day, Joe Ward Munrow – inaugural recipient of the RLF’s Robert Holman Grant Award – joins dramatists…
WritersMosaic – in print and on stage
The first edition of the new quarterly print edition of WritersMosaic is set to be published as an insert in…
RLF Fellows’ News: April 2025
New books, broadcast dates, theatre productions, award news and event appearances from our RLF Fellows in April 2025.
Inform, educate and entertain – the story behind BBC Radio 3
2025 Tinniswood Award judge and RLF Fellow Nicola Baldwin on the battle for Britain’s “National Theatre of the airwaves.”
My Writing Life: Eric Ngalle Charles
“The best advice I ever received about my writing? – ‘Eric, this is crap.'” – poet, author and RLF grants…
Seven ways writers can learn from actors
For World Theatre Day, Sanjida O’Connell takes a look at what writers can learn from actors when it comes to…
AI and the future of the novel
Simon Okotie on how the novel has always been an appropriative technology – and why the advent of AI is…
10 ways AI can help writers
Ten suggestions for AI prompts that could help you improve your writing, by Sanjida O’Connell.
How AI impacted my copywriting job
Guest contributor Craig Brett on how AI checkers are impacting freelance copywriters and other creatives.
Writing For Life and Five Rivers: Do You See Me Now?
Writing For Life Fellow Evie Coopard worked on Do You See Me?, which explores the everyday racism experienced by young…
Albanian road trip
Not my foe: an Albania Journey, by Snežana Ćurčić for WritersMosaic.
Collected: The Podcast – January and February 2025
Listen to the latest episodes from the new Collected podcast, featuring Sylvia Patterson, Kate Mosse and Paul Dodgson.
How to get over writer’s block
Heather Dyer on how she overcame years of writer’s block. Plus, five tips on how to find your creativity again.
Remembering Paul Bailey
A look back at the career of RLF trustee and grants beneficiary Paul Bailey, who died on 27 October 2024.
Passing on the pen: a writer’s legacy
Writers AA Milne and Arthur Ransome share a birthday – and they both donated a portion of their estate to…
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.
