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The 2024 Writers’ Prize
21st November 2023 Media Release: The Writers’ Prize Announces Details for 2024 Now, in its tenth year, the Rathbones Folio Prize is to be relaunched as The Writers’ Prize, with three 2024 shortlists announced on January 9th and category and overall winners...
Rathbones Folio Mentees – Creative Writing Extracts 2020
We're delighted to present four extracts from the 2019 – 2020 Rathbones Folio Mentees: Nidaa Raoof, Mariamah Davey, Maria Clark and Weronika Baranowska. The Rathbones Folio Mentorships 2019 – 2020, run in association with First Story and supported by Arts Council...
Announcing: the Rathbones Folio Prize 2020 Shortlist
Rathbones, Finsbury Circus – The fiction, poetry and non-fiction on the shortlist for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2020 – announced in London tonight – speaks to the #MeToo movement with a bold evocation of Zeus and delivers a radical new take on the American family...
Rathbones Folio Prize Winner Raymond Antrobus’ University Readings
Check out Raymond Antrobus' jam-packed 2020 spring tour – he will appear in universities from Cambridge to Warwick reading new work and, of course, poems from his Rathbones Folio Prize and Ted Hughes Prize-winning 'The Perseverance'. More information...
Rathbones Folio Prize Winner Raymond Antrobus’ Autumn Readings
Check out Raymond Antrobus' jam-packed autumn tour – he will appear in venues from London to Bali, reading new work and, of course, poems from his Rathbones Folio Prize and Ted Hughes Prize-winning 'The Perseverance'. More information...
Rathbones Folio Mentees 2019 – Creative Writing Extracts
As part of National Writing Day, we’re delighted to share extracts from the creative writing portfolios of this year’s Rathbones Folio Mentees.
The Winner of the 2019 Rathbones Folio Prize: Raymond Antrobus
We are thrilled to announce that the winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize 2019 is Raymond Antrobus, for his debut full length poetry collection ‘The Perseverance’
Announcing: the Rathbones Folio Prize 2019 Shortlist
The following eight books are shortlist for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2019, judged by Kate Clanchy, Chloe Aridjis and Owen Sheers.
Rathbones Folio Prize increases prize money to £30,000
Rathbones Folio Prize and Rathbones Investment Management have announced a significant expansion of their partnership, which secures the future of the Rathbones Folio Prize, Mentorships and Sessions until at least 2023, and allows an increase in prize money to £30,000.
Announcing the Rathbones Folio Prize 2019 Judges
We’re delighted to announce that Kate Clanchy, Chloe Aridjis and Owen Sheers will judge the Rathbones Folio Prize 2019
Announcing: the Rathbones Folio Mentors 2018-19
Francesca Beard, Louise Doughty, Joe Dunthorne and Adam Foulds to be Rathbones Folio Mentors
Rathbones Folio Mentees – Creative Writing Extracts
Read excerpts of the inaugural Rathbones Folio mentees’ creative writing portfolios