We were honoured to welcome authors, publishers, agents, booksellers and many more to the British Library on Tuesday 22nd March to celebrate this year’s books. The winning title, announced by Chair of Judges Tessa Hadley, was Colm Tóibín’s The Magician,...
In light of the tragic events taking place in Ukraine and Eastern Europe, we wanted to show our solidarity for the millions affected. Believing that literature is always a form of dialogue, and as a response to the huge demand from readers seeking to gain perspective...
Raymond Antrobus, Vahni Capildeo, Paul Farley and Rachel Long confirmed as mentors for the 2021 Rathbones Folio Mentorship programme. The scheme pairs four outstanding students from disadvantaged backgrounds with four mentors, who are members of The Folio Academy, for...
The T.S. Eliot Prize-winning poet Roger Robinson, the Irish writer, editor and broadcaster Sinéad Gleeson and novelist and short story writer Jon McGregor have been announced as judges for the 2021 Rathbones Folio Prize. The £30,000 Prize – known as the “writers’...
The Rathbones Folio Prize, also known as the Writers’ Prize’, is proud to support writing of all genres and so we are delighted to share work from the new anthology ‘Unmute: Young Voices from Lockdown’. It’s an anthology packed full of emotive and stunningly...
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