Professor Jacob Polley made a Fellow of the RSL
20 August 2024
Professor Jacob Polley has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (RSL).
New fellow
The award-winning poet, who is Professor of Creative Writing in Newcastle University’s School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, is one of 29 new Fellows.
“I’m thrilled and honoured to be elected to the Royal Society of Literature,” said Professor Polley. “It came as a complete and wonderful surprise.”
Professor Polley will sign his name in the RSL Roll Book, which dates back to 1825 and features the signatures of Fellows and Honorary Fellows elected in the past 200 years.
RSL Fellows are some of the best writers working today and are nominated by their peers and selected by the Society’s governing board.
Acclaimed
He joins Professor Preti Taneja and Professor Sinéad Morrissey as an RSL Fellow, while Emerita Professor Linda Anderson is an Honorary Fellow.