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.

  • James Walvin OBE
  • Marina Warner CBE FBA
  • Val Warner
  • Sarah Waters
  • Daniel Weissbort
  • Fay Weldon CBE
  • Robert Wells
  • Timberlake Wertenbaker
  • Sir Arnold Wesker
  • Sara Wheeler
  • Hugh Whitemore
  • Helen Wilcox
  • Hugo Williams
  • Nigel Williams
  • The Most Rev Rowan Williams FBA
  • A.N. Wilson
  • Frances Wilson
  • Dame Jacqueline Wilson DBE
  • Lewis Wolpert CBE FRS
  • Charles Wood
  • James Wood
  • Michael Wood
  • Gerard Woodward
  • Pamela Woof
  • Andrew Wright
  • Kit Wright
  • Ann Wroe FRHistS
  • Francis Wyndham