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Royal Society of Literature @rsliterature.bsky.social · 7d

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

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Laura Greenfield @lauragreenfield.bsky.social · 12d

And you too!

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Laura Greenfield @lauragreenfield.bsky.social · 13d

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.

The Librarians Film @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social · Sep 5

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

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Royal Society of Literature @rsliterature.bsky.social · 21d

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?...

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Nicola Spurr @nicolaspurr.bsky.social · 23d

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. 📚📚📚

Laura Greenfield @lauragreenfield.bsky.social · 23d

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

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So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · 23d

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!

Laura Greenfield @lauragreenfield.bsky.social · 23d

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

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Laura Greenfield @lauragreenfield.bsky.social · 23d

Here’s Bernardine’s own celebration of Maureen Duffy observer.co.uk/culture/book... And you can join us at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social on 30th November to celebrate in person - details coming soon

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Laura Greenfield @lauragreenfield.bsky.social · 23d

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

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Laura Greenfield @lauragreenfield.bsky.social · 23d

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"

Royal Society of Literature @rsliterature.bsky.social · 23d

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/...

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Laura Greenfield @lauragreenfield.bsky.social · Aug 20

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...

2025 Giles St Aubyn Awards for Non-Fiction. Three annual awards of £2,500, £5,000 and £10,000 for writers working on their first commissioned work of non-fiction for general readership. Now open until Monday 22 September.

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Laura Greenfield @lauragreenfield.bsky.social · 28d

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

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Laura Greenfield @lauragreenfield.bsky.social · 28d

If you go on Saturday you can also stay for the evening and come to our @rsliterature.bsky.social collaboration with Book Slam. The line up is amazing rsliterature.org/whats-on/rsl...

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Laura Greenfield @lauragreenfield.bsky.social · 28d

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...

Tall window and view of a grand courtyard with slices of photographs and poems mounted on the wall on either side.

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Laura Greenfield @lauragreenfield.bsky.social · Aug 30

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

Completed stickers leaflets and lists of books in children’s handwriting with a congratulations note

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · Jun 2

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!

A pile of books on a red background with a QR code with white text which reads: Thinking of the Children: Book Bans, Censorship and Literature for Young People. It's a CFP for an online conference hosted by the University of Münster, 11-12 February 2026. For the full CFP, an easier to read version is available at bit.ly/CFPThinkingOfTheChildren

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Laura Greenfield @lauragreenfield.bsky.social · Aug 20

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...

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Laura Greenfield @lauragreenfield.bsky.social · Aug 20

First week @rsliterature.bsky.social. London has been looking glorious from my commute!

View of River Thames and London skyline with a cloudy sky and Tower Bridge in the distance

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Laura Greenfield @lauragreenfield.bsky.social · Aug 14

Also thoroughly enjoyed telling them the plot of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (to explain some jokes). They were incredulous, and I didn’t even get into the bit with the Athenians.

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Laura Greenfield @lauragreenfield.bsky.social · Aug 14

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

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Emily Dourish @emilydourish.bsky.social · Aug 12

Because as we know, women very rarely have pockets 😢@theulspeccoll.bsky.social 1928.6 178 and 1928.6.179.

The cover of a 1928 Pocket Dictionary featuring a smartly dressed gentleman.

The cover of Everywoman's Dictionary from 1928, featuring an elegant woman sitting at a writing desk. She is wearing a blue drop-waisted dress which one must assume has no pockets.

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Laura Greenfield @lauragreenfield.bsky.social · Aug 12

Recharging in the Kent countryside. (Proper camping plus onsite pizza chef…)

Toasted marshmallow on a stick in front of a campfire

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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · Aug 7

We are hosting the UK premiere of the powerful documentary, ‘The Librarians’, directed by Kim A. Snyder. Come and join us @bodleian.ox.ac.uk for the screening, a panel discussion, and drinks! Co-organised with @rsliterature.bsky.social visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/sep25/...

The Librarians

Join us for a screening of 'The Librarians', followed by a panel discussion and drinks reception

visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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Laura Greenfield @lauragreenfield.bsky.social · Jul 31

Thank you so much!

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Laura Greenfield @lauragreenfield.bsky.social · Jul 31

End of an era @theul.bsky.social @jessicagardner.bsky.social I will miss you all so much.

Also here commemorating the single time my desk has looked like this in 11 years.

Locked office door made of wood and glass

Green book stacks, floor to ceiling, on either side of a corridor

Cleared desk, empty of paper and notes, with only a laptop and keys

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Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · Jul 31

After 11 years at the UL, @lauragreenfield.bsky.social, Director of Services and Engagement, leaves today to become Director of the @rsliterature.bsky.social. We'll dearly miss Laura's rare combination of vision, leadership, humour and compassion, but can't wait to see what she does next!

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