- Richard Mabey
- Fiona MacCarthy
- Ian McDonald AA
- Ian McEwan CBE
- Robert Macfarlane
- Roger McGough CBE
- Patrick McGrath
- Shena Mackay
- Denis Mack Smith CBE FBA
- Rory MacLean
- Margaret MacMillan
- Candia McWilliam
- Brenda Maddox
- Noel Malcolm FBA
- David Malouf
- Norman Manea
- Alberto Manguel
- Philip Mansel
- Hilary Mantel CBE
- Patrick Marber
- Patrick Marnham
- Adam Mars-Jones
- Philip Marsden
- Rosalind Marshall
- Allan Massie
- Douglas Matthews FCLIP, Benson Medallist
- Glyn Maxwell
- Derwent May
- Geraldine McCaughrean
- Ved Mehta
- Edward Mendelson
- Jeffrey Meyers
- Mary Midgley
- Karl Miller
- Michael Millgate
- Pankaj Mishra
- Rohinton Mistry
- Julian Mitchell
- Deborah Moggach
- Caroline Moorehead OBE
- Geoffrey Moorhouse
- Elaine Morgan
- Michael Morpurgo OBE
- Jan Morris CBE
- Blake Morrison
- Nicholas Mosley (Lord Ravensdale MC)
- Sir Andrew Motion
- Ferdinand Mount (Bt)
- Paul Muldoon
- Alice Munro
- Richard Murphy
Adam Foulds – Year of election 2010
Adam Foulds is a poet and novelist who won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award following the 2007 publication of his first novel, The Truth About These Strange Times. The Broken Word (2008), a remarkable narrative poem which was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, won the Costa Poetry Award. His second novel, The Quickening Maze, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Foulds is noted for his extraordinary gift for language and his forensic imagination.