The Goldsmiths Prize in partnership with the Deptford Literary Festival Presents: Kate Briggs 📅 Wednesday 25th March, 7pm 📍Goldsmiths, University of London FREE TIX👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-goldsm...

Goldsmiths Prize 2015 shortlistee, @richbeard.bsky.social, on 'the miracle of human artistic selection' and much more in @aeon.co aeon.co/essays/sure-...

“By celebrating and rewarding innovation in the form of the novel, the Goldsmiths Prize keeps the novel what it should always be: new.” (Francis Spufford, Chair of Judges) www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

The Goldsmiths Prize 2026 is here! Meet our wonderful judges: writer and translator Kate Briggs, novelist Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social, journalist and former Evening Standard Literary Editor David Sexton and Chair of Judges, novelist Francis Spufford.

We put the Goldsmiths Prize 2025 to bed on Wednesday with @cdrose.bsky.social in fine form chatting to @asack.bsky.social. The 2026 Prize launches on Wednesday 21st January. Panel announcement around 9am 📣🔥

The Goldsmiths Prize 2025 winner event! @cdrose.bsky.social reading from his winning novel & in conversation with @asack.bsky.social. 📍@goldsmithsuol.bsky.social 📅 14th January, from 7pm FREE TIX 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cd-rose-wi...

'The joy is in the journey — and what a joy it is.' @john-self.bsky.social on @cdrose.bsky.social's We Live here Now. thecritic.co.uk/issues/decem...

'Perhaps a book about a work of art that swallows those who experience it can only really live up to its promise if it does the same to its readers ... I realise that sometimes, lost in its fitfully brilliant pages, that’s exactly what happened to me.' observer.co.uk/culture/book...

VERY much looking forward to talking with @cdrose.bsky.social about the brilliant WE LIVE HERE NOW

The Goldsmiths Prize 2025 winner event! @cdrose.bsky.social reading from his winning novel & in conversation with @asack.bsky.social. 📍@goldsmithsuol.bsky.social 📅 14th January, from 7pm FREE TIX 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cd-rose-wi...

All My Precious Madness by Mark Bowles JUST WON best audiobook fiction at The Speakies! This is delightful! So pleased for @markabowles.bsky.social , @spiracleaudiobooks.bsky.social , wonderful reader Paul Hilton. And for us! www.thebookseller.com/british-audi...

@cdrose.bsky.social talking to Alex Clark & Lucy Dallas about We Live Here Now (@ 30mins 50seconds) shows.acast.com/af0e16de-9e4...

Congratulations @benpester.bsky.social! 👏🎉👏

@cdrose.bsky.social & @asack.bsky.social talk to @georginagodwin.bsky.social about the Goldsmiths Prize and this year's remarkable winner, We Live Here Now: monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Sylvia would like to say thank you to everyone for awarding her the @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social. (And so would I.)

Huge congratulations to @cdrose.bsky.social and so emphatically deserved! Read this book.

'Challenge is part of our lives, make it part of our reading lives too' @cdrose.bsky.social on winning the Goldsmiths Prize

Congratulations to @cdrose.bsky.social for his @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social win with We Live Here Now! You can read his Personal Anthology picks, here - couple of seasonal specials and then a typically idiosyncratic Anthology of his own! apersonalanthology.com/category/cd-...

A happy C.D. Rose, shortly after winning our 2025 Prize last night @foylesforbooks.bsky.social. Trophy designed and made by Cherrie Tong; pic @davidcollard.bsky.social

Great evening yesterday at the Goldsmiths Prize ceremony. One of very few literary prizes that actually rewards risk taking and experimentation. CD Rose won this year for We Love Here Now... Always good to see a Mancunian lifting a literary trophy! @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social

'We Live Here Now emerged similarly mysteriously, flying steadily & consistently under the radar before assuming its rightful place as the winner of this year’s Goldsmiths Prize.' Judge @simonokotie.bsky.social on why C.D. Rose won this year's Goldsmiths Prize. www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

'This constellatory novel tests the bounds of the form while delivering all of its satisfactions: at once hilarious and deeply haunting, intellectually challenging and supremely entertaining.’ (Amy Sackville, Chair of Judges) www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2025 is C.D. Rose's We Live Here Now! 🎉🎉 Congratulations Chris! 👏👏

@cdrose.bsky.social is the 2025 Goldsmiths Prize winner!!! So, so well deserved ❤️🏆 Read WE LIVE HERE NOW! @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social

A bouquet of congratulations to C.D. Rose, a very deserving winner of the @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social for his brilliant, funny, inventive, cynical, enthralling, disorienting novel We Live Here Now. 👇

Good luck to all the shortlisted authors of the best literary prize around.

Another year, another fantastic shortlist for the @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social ! Truly some of the most exciting fiction out there, and here’s me talking about these 6 brilliant books! youtu.be/BkV1PQjQbbI?...

The waiting is nearly over! Our judges - Mark Haddon, Megan Nolan, @simonokotie.bsky.social, and @asack.bsky.social - have read, deliberated and decided. Winner announcement TONIGHT around 7.30pm🔥

‘The novel form extends the possibilities of reality. So a novel that extends the possibilities of a form that extends the possibilities of reality? What kind of magic is that?’ www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

Winter Papers 11 is here [sound up!]. Design by @johnfoley.bitedesign.com Supported by @artscouncilireland.bsky.social Launching @dublinbookfest.bsky.social Saturday 8th Nov

'A book with an innovative approach will ... deliver no message.... But, lord, you will have experienced something.' @cdrose.bsky.social talks to the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social's Emily Lawford about the wonderful #GP2025 shortlisted novel, We Live Here Now www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

Missed this year’s Goldsmiths Prize shortlist readings at the Southbank Centre? Listen hear 👇 www.youtube.com/live/u_UOKs7...

A Goldsmiths Prize question on last night's University Challenge, Sheffield vs New College, Oxford. 'Natasha Soobramanien & Luke Williams were awarded the 2022 Goldsmiths Prize for their novel titled for which island?' 'Yes, of course, Diego Garcia.'

'What I think is innovative in a novel is the drawing out of unexpected emotional reactions.' @benpester.bsky.social talks to the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social's Barney Horner about his brilliant Goldsmiths Prize shortlisted novel, The Expansion Project. www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

This year's Chair of Judges, Amy Sackville, on Charlie Porter's 'moving, lyrical book':

'With any art form, if ABC is expected from it, how can it surprise, challenge, develop cultures, reflect and revolutionise the way we see the world?' Sarah Hall talks to @tanjilrashid.bsky.social @newstatesman1913.bsky.social about her remarkable novel, Helm. www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

@benpester.bsky.social, Sarah Hall, @cdrose.bsky.social & @ericawgnr.bsky.social on stage last night @southbankcentre.bsky.social. Colwill Brown, @yrsadaleyward.bsky.social & Charlie Porter contributed in virtual form. Thanks to everyone for a stimulating evening of readings and discussion.

@benpester.bsky.social reading from The Expansion Project at the @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social shortlist event last night. A great evening.

'What makes writing so seductive to me is that I come here to rewild after all the rules and regulations of life. I want to be surprised by my work. Innovation creates space for this.' @yrsadaleyward.bsky.social talks to Zuzanna Lachendro about The Catch. www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

New video discussing the 2025 Goldsmiths Prize shortlist: www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1I8...

We've got three different literary prize readings and ceremonies at this year's #LondonLiteratureFestival, so I spoke to representatives from the @forwardprizes.bsky.social, @wasafirimag.bsky.social and @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social to understand what goes into deciding literary prizes.

'The word novel means new. It’s a really simple action, it’s really clear and it’s really powerful.' Charlie Porter talks to @georgemonaghan.bsky.social about his brilliant, #GoldsmithsPrize2025 shortlisted, novel, Nova Scotia House www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

Catherine Taylor on Colwill Brown's 'lacerating' & 'exhilarating' novel #GoldsmithsPrize2025 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

#GoldsmithsPrize2025 judge, Mark Haddon, on the 'absoutely gripping read' that is Colwill Brown's We Pretty Pieces of Flesh

#GoldsmithsPrize2025 judge on Sarah Hall's 'relentlessly inventive' novel Helm.

#GoldsmithsPrize2025 judge, @simonokotie.bsky.social, on C.D. Rose's We Live Here Now:

#GoldsmithsPrize2025 Chair of Judges, @asack.bsky.social, on @benpester.bsky.social's 'unsettling' and 'very funny' novel.

We are delighted to announce that this year's shortlist readings will be @southbankcentre.bsky.social as part of the London Literature Festival on 22nd October 📣