Michael Symmons Roberts elected Fellow of RSL

Congratulations to Michael Symmons Roberts who has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. 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 working today. To be nominated for Fellowship by current Fellows, a writer must have published two works of literary merit. Drysalter, Michael's latest collection of poetry, was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and won both the Costa Poetry Award and the Forward Prize.