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Tolka @tolkajournal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

New online! An interview with our translator-in-residence, Polly Barton, by Eric Ozawa. Polly and Eric delve into the art of translation, conversations about porn, and Polly's @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social shortlisted novel, 'What Am I, A Deer?'. tolkajournal.org/featured/an-...

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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We are delighted to announce the #GoldsmithsPrize2026 shortlist! 🎉🎉 Congratulations to our six brilliant novelists! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Visit our website to find out more www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...

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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Goldsmiths Prize 2026 judges, Kate Briggs, Francis Spufford and David Sexton together @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social to choose this year's shortlist (@harikunzru.bsky.social beaming in from afar). Shortlist announcement next Wednesday, 30th September at 9.30am 🔥🔥🔥

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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

⛸️⛸️ on time! Visit our website for entry forms and Ts&Cs.

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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Next Wednesday, 25 March! FREE TIX 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-goldsm...

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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

⛸️⛸️ on time! Visit our website for entry forms and Ts&Cs.

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London Writers Centre @ldnwriterscentre.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Translating across borders both literary and linguistic, we’re excited to welcome award-winning translator and novelist Kate Briggs to #DeptfordLitFest 📚️ for an in-conversation with writer and critic @jennifer_hodgson_ 📅 Wednesday 25 March, 7-8pm 📍 Room 137A, Richard Hoggart Building @goldsmithsuol

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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

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...

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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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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

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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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

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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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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

“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...

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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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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

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.

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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

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 📣🔥

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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

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...

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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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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

'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...

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Paperback of the week: We Live Here Now by CD Rose | The Observer

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Amy Sackville @asack.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

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

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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

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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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@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

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...

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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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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

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

A muted calico cat looking very pleased with herself while posing with the trophy for the 2025 Goldsmith's Prize.

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Guillermo Stitch @guillermostitch.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

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

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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

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

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Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

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-...

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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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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

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

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Michael Eades @drmichaeleades.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

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

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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

'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...

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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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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

'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...

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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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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

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

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Melville House @melvillehouse.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

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

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

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. 👇

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Benjamin Myers @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

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

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Bob Hughes @bobthebookerer.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

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?...

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The 2025 Goldsmiths Prize Shortlist- Innovative Fiction

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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

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🔥

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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

‘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...

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Colwill Brown: “Romanticising a place is only another way to diminish it”

The 2025 Goldsmith Prize-shortlisted author on the poetry of the South Yorkshire dialect and paradigm-shifting novels

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Winter Papers @winterpapers.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

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

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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

'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...

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CD Rose Q&A: “Novels are like massive clouds which lower overhead”

The 2025 Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author on the art world, how we measure value and the role of criticism today

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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

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

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The Goldsmiths Prize 2025: Shortlist Readings – Live Stream

YouTube video by Southbank Centre

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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

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.'

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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

'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...

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Ben Pester Q&A: “Feeling weird is essential”

The 2025 Goldsmith Prize-shortlisted author on the pleasure of generational differences and the value of messy literature

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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

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

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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

'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...

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Sarah Hall: "I wanted readers to experience dystopia"

The Goldsmith Prize-shortlisted author on making climate catastrophe feel real in fiction

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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

@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.

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Jason Arthur @jasonarthur.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

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

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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

'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...

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Yrsa Daley-Ward: “How could anyone keep themselves all the way out of a novel?”

The Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author on colour as a language, trusting strangeness and how memories revise and rewrite themselves

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