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The RSL celebrates and nurtures reading and writing of all kinds. We're a charity that believes literature is for everyone. ✨ 200 years young. 🌟
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We’re delighted to host two events with poet and novelist Anne Michaels this spring!🌻
Anne will be in conversation with author Claire Messud at the Royal Society of Arts @thersaorg on Friday 24 May, 7pm, chaired by author and RSL Fellow Elif Shafak
A rare opportunity to see
📚On this #WorldBookDay , let's celebrate literature in all its guise!
Check the full line-up of #BeyondWordsFest taking place from 9-19 May Institut français UK
Expect discussions, readings & screenings with acclaimed authors & new voices.
beyondwordslitfest.co.uk
“The poem says: precisely in the places where we feel most abandoned, we are not alone”
Join the RSL at the Royal Society of Arts @thersaorg on Monday 20 May at 7pm, where esteemed poet and novelist Anne Michaels will be delivering 'Nothing Enrages The Tyrant More Than Hope:
The one and only #WilliamShakespeare was #BornOnThisDay in 1564 🖋️
With 14 comedies and 12 tragedies under his belt, it’s safe to say Shakespeare was a master of writing about love and loss.
And what encompasses love and loss more than the hit book and Netflix series #OneDay -
Literary pioneer Charlotte Brontë was #BornOnThisDay in 1816. Did you know that she originally published Jane Eyre under the name Currer Bell?
If you’ve read Jane Eyre, you might like Agnes Grey; why not register for our FREE Anne Brontë event? Sign up now
bit.ly/WO_UAB
This year’s RSL Lecture at the Newcastle Poetry Festival will be delivered by Anthony Joseph Anthony Joseph
Join us on 11 May, 4.30pm at the Northern Stage of the Newcastle Poetry Festival. Tickets are FREE to RSL Members/Fellows, you can register here: ow.ly/AAVp50Re7wS
Why should writers in the UK celebrate international writers? Here’s RSL Fellow and #InternationalWriters judge @natteitler to tell you more!
There are just a few weeks left to make your recommendations for this year’s RSL International Writers➡️➡️ bit.ly/IW_2024
🤓Tickets are on sale for Newcastle Poetry Festival 2024! #NPFP24 📚Please join us for 3 days of readings, panels, workshops, commissions, performances and school events 9-11 May Northern Stage Newcastle University
Booking info here 🎫newcastlepoetryfestival.co.uk
Poet, playwright, translator; RSL Fellow Seamus Heaney was #BornOnThisDay in 1939. Considered one of the most important 20th century poets, his work once made up 2/3 of all poetry collections sold in the UK.
Listen to him discuss his life & work here⬇️ bit.ly/RSL_SH
The event on 3rd May features the mighty CatherineJohnson MichaelSalu & Debo Amon exploring the tremendous possibilities of black voices in the arts & beyond. rsliterature.org/whats-on/manif…