Goldsmiths Prize
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The literary prize rewarding mould-breaking fiction, launched and run by Goldsmiths UoL in association with the New Statesman
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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.
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’re delighted to be supporting #DeptfordLitFest 2026! Explore what literature means to us today, through workshops, talks, readings + more from @ldnwriterscentre.bsky.social
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February 10, 2026 at 10:24 AM
We’re delighted to be supporting #DeptfordLitFest 2026! Explore what literature means to us today, through workshops, talks, readings + more from @ldnwriterscentre.bsky.social
Book now: www.londonwriterscentre.org.uk/events/?_eve...
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The Goldsmiths Prize in partnership with the Deptford Literary Festival Presents: Kate Briggs
📅 Wednesday 25th March, 7pm
📍Goldsmiths, University of London
FREE TIX👇
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📅 Wednesday 25th March, 7pm
📍Goldsmiths, University of London
FREE TIX👇
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The Goldsmiths Prize presents Kate Briggs in conversation
Join award winning translator and novelist, Kate Briggs, who will read from and discuss her work.
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January 29, 2026 at 10:16 AM
The Goldsmiths Prize in partnership with the Deptford Literary Festival Presents: Kate Briggs
📅 Wednesday 25th March, 7pm
📍Goldsmiths, University of London
FREE TIX👇
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📅 Wednesday 25th March, 7pm
📍Goldsmiths, University of London
FREE TIX👇
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Goldsmiths Prize 2015 shortlistee, @richbeard.bsky.social, on 'the miracle of human artistic selection' and much more in @aeon.co
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Sure, AI can ‘do’ writing. But memoir? Not so much | Aeon Essays
As AI’s endless clichés continue to encroach on human art, the true uniqueness of our creativity is becoming ever clearer
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January 27, 2026 at 11:11 AM
Goldsmiths Prize 2015 shortlistee, @richbeard.bsky.social, on 'the miracle of human artistic selection' and much more in @aeon.co
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“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)
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Hari Kunzru and David Sexton to judge the Goldsmiths Prize 2026
Kate Briggs and Francis Spufford complete the panel for this year’s award for fiction “that extends the possibility of the novel”.
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January 21, 2026 at 10:31 AM
“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)
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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.
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.
January 21, 2026 at 8:58 AM
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.
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 2026 Prize launches on Wednesday 21st January. Panel announcement around 9am 📣🔥
January 16, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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 2026 Prize launches on Wednesday 21st January. Panel announcement around 9am 📣🔥
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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 👇
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@cdrose.bsky.social reading from his winning novel & in conversation with @asack.bsky.social.
📍@goldsmithsuol.bsky.social
📅 14th January, from 7pm
FREE TIX 👇
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C.D. Rose, winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2025
The Goldsmiths Writers' Centre Presents the winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2025 in conversation with Amy Sackville, Chair of Judges.
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November 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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...
@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.
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@john-self.bsky.social on @cdrose.bsky.social's We Live here Now.
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Debuts, comebacks and suprises | John Self | The Critic Magazine
It’s that time when we round up the best fiction of the year that wasn’t covered in this column…
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December 8, 2025 at 11:07 AM
'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.
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@john-self.bsky.social on @cdrose.bsky.social's We Live here Now.
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'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.'
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Paperback of the week: We Live Here Now by CD Rose | The Observer
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November 29, 2025 at 9:46 AM
'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.'
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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...
@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...
C.D. Rose, winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2025
The Goldsmiths Writers' Centre Presents the winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2025 in conversation with Amy Sackville, Chair of Judges.
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November 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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...
@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...
C.D. Rose, winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2025
The Goldsmiths Writers' Centre Presents the winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2025 in conversation with Amy Sackville, Chair of Judges.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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...
@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...
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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...
Best Audiobook: Fiction Shortlist | The British Audio Awards
The shortlist for the Best Audiobook: Fiction category at The British Audio Awards 2025
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November 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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)
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Books of the Year | The TLS Podcast
This week, TLS contributors select their favourites from 2025; plus an interview with CD Rose, winner of this year’s Goldsmiths Prize.
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November 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
@cdrose.bsky.social talking to Alex Clark & Lucy Dallas about We Live Here Now (@ 30mins 50seconds)
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Congratulations @benpester.bsky.social! 👏🎉👏
A second prize shortlisting for @benpester.bsky.social after the @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social. Whoop!
November 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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:
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How much work is love? Plus: The Goldsmiths Prize 2025 - Monocle
Tessa Szyszkowitz and Georgina Godwin discuss psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz’s new book. Plus: the AI bubble, the next generation of Democrats...
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November 11, 2025 at 9:32 AM
@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:
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Sylvia would like to say thank you to everyone for awarding her the @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social.
(And so would I.)
(And so would I.)
November 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Sylvia would like to say thank you to everyone for awarding her the @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social.
(And so would I.)
(And so would I.)
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Huge congratulations to @cdrose.bsky.social and so emphatically deserved! Read this book.
We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2025 is C.D. Rose's We Live Here Now! 🎉🎉
Congratulations Chris! 👏👏
Congratulations Chris! 👏👏
November 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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
@cdrose.bsky.social on winning the Goldsmiths Prize
November 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
'Challenge is part of our lives, make it part of our reading lives too'
@cdrose.bsky.social on winning the Goldsmiths Prize
@cdrose.bsky.social on winning the Goldsmiths Prize
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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!
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You can read his Personal Anthology picks, here - couple of seasonal specials and then a typically idiosyncratic Anthology of his own!
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CD Rose – A Personal Anthology
C.D. Rose is the author of Who's Who When Everyone Is Someone Else: Ten Lectures on Great Lost Books and the editor of The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure (both published by Melville Ho…
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November 6, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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-...
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
Trophy designed and made by Cherrie Tong; pic @davidcollard.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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
Trophy designed and made by Cherrie Tong; pic @davidcollard.bsky.social
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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
November 6, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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.
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Judge @simonokotie.bsky.social on why C.D. Rose won this year's Goldsmiths Prize.
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Why CD Rose won the 2025 Goldsmiths Prize for fiction
His fourth book We Live Here Now challenges the novel’s form by focusing on texture, atmosphere and resonance
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November 6, 2025 at 8:10 AM
'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.
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Judge @simonokotie.bsky.social on why C.D. Rose won this year's Goldsmiths Prize.
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'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)
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CD Rose awarded the 2025 Goldsmiths prize
The author has won the experimental literary fiction prize for his ‘dizzying, encyclopaedic’ fifth book, We Live Here Now
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November 6, 2025 at 8:04 AM
'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)
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We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2025 is C.D. Rose's We Live Here Now! 🎉🎉
Congratulations Chris! 👏👏
Congratulations Chris! 👏👏
November 6, 2025 at 7:56 AM
We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2025 is C.D. Rose's We Live Here Now! 🎉🎉
Congratulations Chris! 👏👏
Congratulations Chris! 👏👏