The Royal Society of Literature has some 500 Fellows. They include novelists, short-story writers, poets, playwrights, biographers, historians, travel writers, literary critics and scriptwriters. All write in the English language and most are British, but overseas authors are also well represented. Among our current Fellows are Tom Stoppard, Seamus Heaney, Beryl Bainbridge, Philip Pullman, Margaret Drabble, Ben Okri, Carol Ann Duffy, Vikram Seth, Michael Frayn, Doris Lessing, Zadie Smith and Wole Soyinka.
The requirements for Fellowship are that candidates should have published at least two books and been nominated by two or more existing Fellows. Elections, in which the Society’s President, Vice-Presidents and Council vote, take place twice a year. On average fifteen new Fellows are chosen each year, from over 70 nominees. In addition, the Council may award Honorary Fellowships in recognition of outstanding service to literature or the Society.
- Tessa Hadley
- John Haffenden FBA
- William Hague
- John Halperin
- Georgina Hammick
- Christopher Hampton CBE
- Barbara Hardy FBA
- Sir David Hare
- Claire Harman
- Richard Harries (The Rt Rev Lord Harries of Pentregarth)
- Robert Harris
- Wilson Harris
- Tony Harrison
- David Harsent
- Ronald Harwood CBE, Vice-President
- Sir Max Hastings
- Lady Selina Hastings
- Roy Hattersley (Lord Hattersley)
- Cameron Hazlehurst
- Shirley Hazzard
- Tim Heald
- Denis Healey (Lord Healey CH MBE)
- Edna Healey (Lady Healey)
- Philip Hensher
- Dominic Hibberd
- Geoffrey Hill
- Reginald Hill
- Rosemary Hill
- Bevis Hillier
- Tim Hilton
- Barry Hines
- Russell Hoban
- Eric Hobsbawm CH FBA
- Mary Hocking
- Eva Hoffman
- Richard Hoggart
- Ursula Holden
- Alan Hollinghurst
- Richard Holmes OBE FBA
- Sir Michael Holroyd CBE C Lit FRHistS, President
- Park Honan
- Hugh Honour FBA
- Christopher Hope
- Nick Hornby
- Sir Alistair Horne CBE
- Philip Howard
- Kathryn Hughes FRHistS
- Shirley Hughes OBE
- Lucy Hughes-Hallett
- Roland Huntford
- Aamer Hussein
- Angela Huth
- Samuel Hynes