Laura Greenfield
@lauragreenfield.bsky.social
Director of the Royal Society of Literature @rsliterature.bsky.social; previously @theUL.bsky.social; Clore Fellow; FRSA. I like books, libraries, culture and cake.
This is an amazing opportunity. Please consider applying for the Community Panel - they are the heart of the project
Black British Voices: Black British Collections.
Cambridge University Library is forming a community panel of Black British & Black Northern Irish individuals to help shape its 2027 exhibition & events programme.
🗓️ Deadline: 14 Dec 2025
🔗More info: https://loom.ly/9lDrGVY
Cambridge University Library is forming a community panel of Black British & Black Northern Irish individuals to help shape its 2027 exhibition & events programme.
🗓️ Deadline: 14 Dec 2025
🔗More info: https://loom.ly/9lDrGVY
Black British Voices: Black British Collections
Join a community panel to shape Cambridge University Library's 2027 public exhibition and programme
www.lib.cam.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This is an amazing opportunity. Please consider applying for the Community Panel - they are the heart of the project
Fantastic to see @ukparliament.parliament.uk launching an inquiry into children's reading for pleasure, in advance of the National Year of Reading. Submissions by 9th January, details here committees.parliament.uk/call-for-evi... There are such important questions in the terms of reference.
Call for Evidence - Committees - UK Parliament
Reading for Pleasure
committees.parliament.uk
November 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Fantastic to see @ukparliament.parliament.uk launching an inquiry into children's reading for pleasure, in advance of the National Year of Reading. Submissions by 9th January, details here committees.parliament.uk/call-for-evi... There are such important questions in the terms of reference.
Yesterday was the award ceremony for the Queen's Commonwealth Essay Competition at St James's Palace. The four winners, all between 14 and 17, were outrageously impressive - you can read their winning pieces here www.royalcwsociety.org/post/meet-th...
Meet the winners of The Queen's Commonwealth Essay Competition 2025!
The Royal Commonwealth Society (RCS) is proud to announce the winners of The Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition (QCEC) 2025, the world’s oldest international writing competition for schools. This...
www.royalcwsociety.org
November 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Yesterday was the award ceremony for the Queen's Commonwealth Essay Competition at St James's Palace. The four winners, all between 14 and 17, were outrageously impressive - you can read their winning pieces here www.royalcwsociety.org/post/meet-th...
Reposted by Laura Greenfield
We’ve got great news for writers across the UK and RoI – the 2026 RSL Ondaatje Prize is now taking submissions! 🥳
Applications are open until 5pm on 12 December 2025. Apply now: https://rsliterature.org/rsl-ondaatje-prize/
Applications are open until 5pm on 12 December 2025. Apply now: https://rsliterature.org/rsl-ondaatje-prize/
November 12, 2025 at 10:12 AM
We’ve got great news for writers across the UK and RoI – the 2026 RSL Ondaatje Prize is now taking submissions! 🥳
Applications are open until 5pm on 12 December 2025. Apply now: https://rsliterature.org/rsl-ondaatje-prize/
Applications are open until 5pm on 12 December 2025. Apply now: https://rsliterature.org/rsl-ondaatje-prize/
Reposted by Laura Greenfield
Keep it short and find what you enjoy: how to start reading for fun
Keep it short and find what you enjoy: how to start reading for fun
In a world full of distractions, it can be difficult to form a habit that needs attention. Experts advise on getting out of the rut
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Keep it short and find what you enjoy: how to start reading for fun
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Come and be part of queer feminist literary history & future, and see Maureen Duffy get her 💐💐💐💐💐
On Sun 30th Nov we will be celebrating the @rsliterature.bsky.social Pioneer Prize, so generously founded and funded by Bernardine Evaristo. The inaugural winner is Maureen Duffy. Join us @britishlibrary.bsky.social or online to celebrate her work: events.bl.uk/events/rsl-p...
RSL presents: The Pioneer Prize | British Library
Join us for the launch of the RSL Pioneer Prize, a new initiative spotlighting and celebrating writers who have been trailblazers in their field.Acknowledg
events.bl.uk
November 17, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Come and be part of queer feminist literary history & future, and see Maureen Duffy get her 💐💐💐💐💐
On Sun 30th Nov we will be celebrating the @rsliterature.bsky.social Pioneer Prize, so generously founded and funded by Bernardine Evaristo. The inaugural winner is Maureen Duffy. Join us @britishlibrary.bsky.social or online to celebrate her work: events.bl.uk/events/rsl-p...
RSL presents: The Pioneer Prize | British Library
Join us for the launch of the RSL Pioneer Prize, a new initiative spotlighting and celebrating writers who have been trailblazers in their field.Acknowledg
events.bl.uk
November 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
On Sun 30th Nov we will be celebrating the @rsliterature.bsky.social Pioneer Prize, so generously founded and funded by Bernardine Evaristo. The inaugural winner is Maureen Duffy. Join us @britishlibrary.bsky.social or online to celebrate her work: events.bl.uk/events/rsl-p...
It was amazing to be there in person to see so many people excited about six incredible books.
‘We had never read anything quite like it. It is, in many ways, a dark book but it is a joy to read’
We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.
We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
It was amazing to be there in person to see so many people excited about six incredible books.
This is an incredible move by some visionary funders to support the literary arts in the US.
Today, a coalition of seven charitable foundations announced the launch of the Literary Arts Fund, a historic philanthropic investment of at least $50 million to strengthen the nonprofit literary arts field in the U.S.
October 29, 2025 at 8:48 PM
This is an incredible move by some visionary funders to support the literary arts in the US.
Reposted by Laura Greenfield
Something very exciting has arrived at our office here in Somerset House 👀
Join us for our Pioneer Prize event at the British Library on 30 November to honour Maureen Duffy's impact and legacy: https://rsliterature.org/whats-on/rsl-presents-the-pioneer-prize/
Join us for our Pioneer Prize event at the British Library on 30 November to honour Maureen Duffy's impact and legacy: https://rsliterature.org/whats-on/rsl-presents-the-pioneer-prize/
October 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Something very exciting has arrived at our office here in Somerset House 👀
Join us for our Pioneer Prize event at the British Library on 30 November to honour Maureen Duffy's impact and legacy: https://rsliterature.org/whats-on/rsl-presents-the-pioneer-prize/
Join us for our Pioneer Prize event at the British Library on 30 November to honour Maureen Duffy's impact and legacy: https://rsliterature.org/whats-on/rsl-presents-the-pioneer-prize/
Reposted by Laura Greenfield
Join us for the launch of the RSL Pioneer Prize, a new initiative which will spotlight and celebrate writers who have been trailblazers in their field.
📅 Sunday 30 November, 2:30pm
📍 The British Library/Online
🎟️ £15 in-person/£5 online, FREE for RSL Members/Fellows
https://ow.ly/uVRX50X3AwC
📅 Sunday 30 November, 2:30pm
📍 The British Library/Online
🎟️ £15 in-person/£5 online, FREE for RSL Members/Fellows
https://ow.ly/uVRX50X3AwC
October 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Join us for the launch of the RSL Pioneer Prize, a new initiative which will spotlight and celebrate writers who have been trailblazers in their field.
📅 Sunday 30 November, 2:30pm
📍 The British Library/Online
🎟️ £15 in-person/£5 online, FREE for RSL Members/Fellows
https://ow.ly/uVRX50X3AwC
📅 Sunday 30 November, 2:30pm
📍 The British Library/Online
🎟️ £15 in-person/£5 online, FREE for RSL Members/Fellows
https://ow.ly/uVRX50X3AwC
Last night this powerful film had its UK premiere, hosted by @bodleian.ox.ac.uk, with courageous librarians like @librarianjones.com there too. Alongside we awarded @richove.bsky.social the @rsliterature.bsky.social Benson Medal. What a privilege to share the stage with them.
See it if you can.
See it if you can.
As book banning sweeps across the U.S. at an unprecedented rate, brave librarians emerge as first responders in the fight for democracy. A film by Kim A. Snyder.
Opens UK 9/26 @berthadochouse.bsky.social, US 10/03 @filmforumnyc.bsky.social, rollout to follow.
Tix: TheLibrariansFilm.com/screenings
Opens UK 9/26 @berthadochouse.bsky.social, US 10/03 @filmforumnyc.bsky.social, rollout to follow.
Tix: TheLibrariansFilm.com/screenings
September 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Last night this powerful film had its UK premiere, hosted by @bodleian.ox.ac.uk, with courageous librarians like @librarianjones.com there too. Alongside we awarded @richove.bsky.social the @rsliterature.bsky.social Benson Medal. What a privilege to share the stage with them.
See it if you can.
See it if you can.
Reposted by Laura Greenfield
Congratulations to the winner of the inaugural RSL Pioneer Prize, Maureen Duffy 🎉
Duffy received news of her award earlier this month when Evaristo visited her at home. Watch the full video here: youtu.be/9ZB_AHdm4ts?...
Duffy received news of her award earlier this month when Evaristo visited her at home. Watch the full video here: youtu.be/9ZB_AHdm4ts?...
September 17, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Congratulations to the winner of the inaugural RSL Pioneer Prize, Maureen Duffy 🎉
Duffy received news of her award earlier this month when Evaristo visited her at home. Watch the full video here: youtu.be/9ZB_AHdm4ts?...
Duffy received news of her award earlier this month when Evaristo visited her at home. Watch the full video here: youtu.be/9ZB_AHdm4ts?...
Reposted by Laura Greenfield
This is a wonderful story! Bernardine Evaristo is SUCH a force for good, not only writing brilliant books & teaching students of writing but also uplifting other writers all over the place. And Maureen Duffy is a great choice to receive this prize. 📚📚📚
The incredible Bernardine Evaristo has used her @womensprize.bsky.social Outstanding Contribution Award to create a new @rsliterature.bsky.social Prize. For the next decade, we will be celebrating pioneering women writers, starting with Maureen Duffy www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
91-year-old author Maureen Duffy wins Pioneer prize launched by Bernardine Evaristo
The RSL president has set up a new literary award for female writers over 60 using the £100,000 she herself won through the Women’s prize
www.theguardian.com
September 15, 2025 at 10:25 PM
This is a wonderful story! Bernardine Evaristo is SUCH a force for good, not only writing brilliant books & teaching students of writing but also uplifting other writers all over the place. And Maureen Duffy is a great choice to receive this prize. 📚📚📚
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And to say once again: Maureen is co-responsible for the existence of both PLR & ALCS, so every writer in the UK & Ireland should give her 💐💐💐. And read her books!
The incredible Bernardine Evaristo has used her @womensprize.bsky.social Outstanding Contribution Award to create a new @rsliterature.bsky.social Prize. For the next decade, we will be celebrating pioneering women writers, starting with Maureen Duffy www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
91-year-old author Maureen Duffy wins Pioneer prize launched by Bernardine Evaristo
The RSL president has set up a new literary award for female writers over 60 using the £100,000 she herself won through the Women’s prize
www.theguardian.com
September 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
And to say once again: Maureen is co-responsible for the existence of both PLR & ALCS, so every writer in the UK & Ireland should give her 💐💐💐. And read her books!
The incredible Bernardine Evaristo has used her @womensprize.bsky.social Outstanding Contribution Award to create a new @rsliterature.bsky.social Prize. For the next decade, we will be celebrating pioneering women writers, starting with Maureen Duffy www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
91-year-old author Maureen Duffy wins Pioneer prize launched by Bernardine Evaristo
The RSL president has set up a new literary award for female writers over 60 using the £100,000 she herself won through the Women’s prize
www.theguardian.com
September 15, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The incredible Bernardine Evaristo has used her @womensprize.bsky.social Outstanding Contribution Award to create a new @rsliterature.bsky.social Prize. For the next decade, we will be celebrating pioneering women writers, starting with Maureen Duffy www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
A very special day today, when my lovely former colleagues @theul.bsky.social have digitised the founding documents of @rsliterature.bsky.social to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the signing of our Royal Charter. My favourite line: "We have become a People of Readers"
The RSL today marks the 200th anniversary of its incorporation with a Royal Charter ✒️
In celebration, Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social has digitised a selection of archive materials which they are making public today for the first time: cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...
In celebration, Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social has digitised a selection of archive materials which they are making public today for the first time: cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...
September 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
A very special day today, when my lovely former colleagues @theul.bsky.social have digitised the founding documents of @rsliterature.bsky.social to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the signing of our Royal Charter. My favourite line: "We have become a People of Readers"
Reposted by Laura Greenfield
Please spread the word: Are you working on your first commissioned work of non-fiction for a general readership? (You can have previously published for an academic audience). We’ve extended the deadline of the wonderful Giles St Aubyn Awards, three prizes £2.5k-£10k rsliterature.org/rsl-giles-st...
August 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Please spread the word: Are you working on your first commissioned work of non-fiction for a general readership? (You can have previously published for an academic audience). We’ve extended the deadline of the wonderful Giles St Aubyn Awards, three prizes £2.5k-£10k rsliterature.org/rsl-giles-st...
The incredible @jonathanwatkins.bsky.social has directed a glorious, witty, sad and hopeful adaptation of Christopher Isherwood’s novel A Single Man into a contemporary ballet. I loved it. It’s been sold out but they seem to have just released Saturday matinee tickets www.rbo.org.uk/tickets-and-...
A Single Man
Find out about A Single Man at the Royal Opera House. Jonathan Watkins reimagines Christopher Isherwood’s novel as an exhilarating contemporary ballet, with new live music from John Grant and Jasmin K...
www.rbo.org.uk
September 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The incredible @jonathanwatkins.bsky.social has directed a glorious, witty, sad and hopeful adaptation of Christopher Isherwood’s novel A Single Man into a contemporary ballet. I loved it. It’s been sold out but they seem to have just released Saturday matinee tickets www.rbo.org.uk/tickets-and-...
A little slice of Somerset House and the Inua Ellams / Fuel Theatre exhibition The 419. Playful, moving, told in sonnets and photographs, and it’s free and only on until Sunday. www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/the...
September 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM
A little slice of Somerset House and the Inua Ellams / Fuel Theatre exhibition The 419. Playful, moving, told in sonnets and photographs, and it’s free and only on until Sunday. www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/the...
It must be the end of summer, because the kids have been breaking in their new school shoes as they walk to the library to finish the @readingagency.bsky.social Summer Reading Challenge
August 30, 2025 at 3:54 PM
It must be the end of summer, because the kids have been breaking in their new school shoes as they walk to the library to finish the @readingagency.bsky.social Summer Reading Challenge
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CFP: Thinking of the Children: Book Bans, Censorship and Literature for Young People
An online conference hosted by the University of Münster
11-12 February 2026
Abstracts due 11:59pm on 31 August!
Full CFP and to submit: indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3505/
Please share!
An online conference hosted by the University of Münster
11-12 February 2026
Abstracts due 11:59pm on 31 August!
Full CFP and to submit: indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3505/
Please share!
June 2, 2025 at 7:36 PM
CFP: Thinking of the Children: Book Bans, Censorship and Literature for Young People
An online conference hosted by the University of Münster
11-12 February 2026
Abstracts due 11:59pm on 31 August!
Full CFP and to submit: indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3505/
Please share!
An online conference hosted by the University of Münster
11-12 February 2026
Abstracts due 11:59pm on 31 August!
Full CFP and to submit: indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3505/
Please share!
Please spread the word: Are you working on your first commissioned work of non-fiction for a general readership? (You can have previously published for an academic audience). We’ve extended the deadline of the wonderful Giles St Aubyn Awards, three prizes £2.5k-£10k rsliterature.org/rsl-giles-st...
August 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Please spread the word: Are you working on your first commissioned work of non-fiction for a general readership? (You can have previously published for an academic audience). We’ve extended the deadline of the wonderful Giles St Aubyn Awards, three prizes £2.5k-£10k rsliterature.org/rsl-giles-st...
First week @rsliterature.bsky.social. London has been looking glorious from my commute!
August 20, 2025 at 5:41 PM
First week @rsliterature.bsky.social. London has been looking glorious from my commute!
I took a small fairy and wizard to Rough Magic at The Globe today (no humans allowed!). It’s hilarious and so engaging. On for another week www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/rou...
Rough Magic | Summer 25 | What's On
Our 'wildly entertaining' family show featuring the witches from Macbeth returns to the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare's Globe this summer.
www.shakespearesglobe.com
August 14, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I took a small fairy and wizard to Rough Magic at The Globe today (no humans allowed!). It’s hilarious and so engaging. On for another week www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/rou...