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@cdrose.bsky.social on winning the Goldsmiths Prize

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

Congratulations Chris! 👏👏

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.'

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

#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.

#GoldsmithsPrize2015 judge, @simonokotie.bsky.social, on Yrsa Daley-Ward's 'extraordinary shape-shifting, genre-defying work of fiction'

#GoldsmithsPrize2025 Chair of Judges, Amy Sackville, on the six 'genuinely novel novels' on this year's fab shortlist.

We are delighted to announce the #GoldsmithsPrize2025 shortlist.

Congratulations to our six brilliant novelists!

Find out more about the shortlist: www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...

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 📣

Here we are making a surprise appearance on last Friday's University Challenge. Excellent work from @jennykleeman.bsky.social and @stephmerritt.bsky.social 👏

Rachel Cusk, on winning the Goldsmiths Prize 2024.

Congratulations Rachel! 🎉🥳👏