The Royal Society of Literature has some 500 Fellows. They include most of the very best novelists, short-story writers, poets, playwrights, biographers, historians, travel writers, literary critics and scriptwriters at work today.
- Julia Abel Smith *
- David Altaras *
- Robert Binyon *
- Umberto Eco *
- Anthony Gardner *
- Lord Gavron CBE *
- Martyn Goff CBE *
- Gunter Grass *
- Seamus Heaney C Lit *
- Drue Heinz DBE *
- Paula Johnson *
- HRH The Duke of Kent *
- Doris Lessing CH C Lit *
- Sir Christopher Ondaatje CBE *
- John Saumarez Smith, Benson Medallist *
- Patricia Schute *
- Ben Sonnenberg *
- Wole Soyinka, Benson Medallist *