17 June 2019
Sixty-seven percent of professional writers earned £10,000 or less in 2018, a Royal Society of LiteratureThis British site may seem rather formal (stated aim ‘to sustain and encourage all that is perceived as best whether traditional or experimental in English letters, and to strive for a Catholic appreciation of literature’), but has a lively series of lectures and discussions involving distinguished authors. Also administers literary prizes. http://www.rslit.org/index1.html poll of more than 2,000 authors has found, with a room of one's own still viewed as the most important requirement for a writing career 90 years on from Virginia Woolf's seminal essay.
