The 2023 Winners’ Gala Ceremony

Download the 2023 Prize Press Release  Photographs from the 2023 Rathbones Folio Prize Ceremony 27th March, British Library, London (all images c. Camilo Queipo)...

The 2023 Rathbones Folio Prize Shortlists

The Category Winners and the Rathbones Folio Prize Book of the Year will be announced in a ceremony at the British Library on Monday 27 March. The shortlisted authors will take part in events across the country as well as an evening of shortlist sessions at the...

Dystopian Fiction Event – Novels of the Future

Watch the riveting literary conversation with best-selling authors Kamila Shamsie and John Lanchester on writing dystopian fiction. BBC news and former arts correspondent Razia Iqbal hosted the event, talking to John and Kamila on how COVID-19 might change the...

Announcing The Rathbones Folio Mentorship 2021 Mentors

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...

Announcing The Rathbones Folio Prize 2021 Judges

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’...