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.

  • Ruth Padel
  • Alan Palmer
  • Peter Parker
  • Don Paterson
  • Jill Paton Walsh
  • Brian Patten
  • Catherine Peters
  • Humphrey Phelps
  • Caryl Phillips
  • Mike Phillips
  • David Plante
  • Alan Plater CBE
  • Piers Plowright
  • Stephen Poliakoff CBE
  • David Pownall
  • David Profumo
  • David Pryce-Jones
  • Philip Pullman CBE