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The literary prize rewarding mould-breaking fiction, launched & run by @GoldsmithsUOL in association with @NewStatesman

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The #GoldsmithsPrize2024 is here! Meet our fab judges: Sara Baume, Xiaolu Guo, Lola Seaton & Abigail Shinn (Chair)
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The fact that Lucy Ellmann just won the #GoldsmithsPrize2019 ! 🦆🦆🎉🎉
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We are delighted to announce the winner of the #GoldsmithsPrize2019 ! Congratulations Lucy! 🎉🎉🦆🦆
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We are delighted to announce the #GoldsmithsPrize2021 shortlist! Congratulations to our six brilliant novelists! 🎉🎉 👏👏🎺🎺
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We are delighted to announce the #GoldsmithsPrize2020 shortlist! Congratulations to our six brilliant novelists! 🎉🎉 🍾🍾👏👏
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We are delighted to announce that the winner of the #GoldsmithsPrize2023 is 'Cuddy' by Benjamin Myers! Congratulations @BenMyers1 ! 🏆🎉🍾
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We are delighted to announce the #GoldsmithsPrize2019 shortlist! Congratulations to our six brilliant novelists! 🎉🎉
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We are delighted to announce the winner of the #GoldsmithsPrize2021 ! Congratulations Isabel! 🎉🎺🥳👏
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'It feels absolutely brilliant' @isabelwaidner winner of the #GoldsmithsPrize2021 ! 🥳🎺🎉👏
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We are delighted to announce the #GoldsmithsPrize2023 shortlist! Congratulations to our six brilliant novelists! 🎉🎉
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We are delighted to announce the #GoldsmithsPrize2018 shortlist! Congratulations to all our wonderful authors 🎉
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We are delighted to announce the #GoldsmithsPrize2022 shortlist! Congratulations to our seven brilliant novelists! 🎉🎉
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We are delighted to announce the winner of the #GoldsmithsPrize2020 ! Congratulations Mike! 🏆🍾🎉🎺👏
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We are delighted to announce the #GoldsmithsPrize2017 shortlist. Congratulations all!
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We are delighted to announce that the winner of the #GoldsmithsPrize2022 is 'Diego Garcia' by Natasha Soobramanien & Luke Williams! 🎉🎺🥳👏
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The winner of the #GoldsmithsPrize2018 is Robin Robertson’s The Long Take! Congratulations Robin!
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The winner of the #GoldsmithsPrize2017 is Nicola Barker’s H(A)PPY! Congratulations Nicola!
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'The whole point of innovative writing is to break limits, to break boundaries, to break rules, to break categories and to move on, always to move on' The winner of the #GoldsmithsPrize2020 , the remarkable M. John Harrison @mjohnharrison
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We are delighted to announce the #GoldsmithsPrize2016 shortlist!
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The #GoldsmithsPrize2022 is here! Meet our judges: Natasha Brown, Tom Gatti, Tim Parnell (Chair), & Ali Smith.
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The winner of the #GoldsmithsPrize2016 is Mike McCormack's Solar Bones! Congratulations Mike!
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The winner of the #GoldsmithsPrize2023 ! Congratulations @BenMyers1
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The winner of the #GoldsmithsPrize2018 is Robin Robertson’s The Long Take! Congratulations Robin!
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Today's the day! The waiting is over (finally!): the #GoldsmithsPrize2020 shortlist will be announced tonight at 8pm 🎺🎺🎉🎉🥳🥳
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Today's the day! We'll be announcing the winner of the #GoldsmithsPrize2020 tonight at 7.30pm (ish) 🎉🍾🎺👏🥳🔖🏆
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Ahead of the announcement of our 2019 winner on Wednesday night, a reminder of the six remarkable novels on our shortlist. If you haven't read them yet, what are you doing with your time? #GoldsmithsPrize2019
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We're delighted to announce the 5th @NewStatesman / Goldsmiths Prize lecture on 30/9: the brilliant @BernardineEvari on Why Some Novels Matter More Than Others. The #GoldsmithsPrize2020 shortlist will be announced at the end of the evening. FREE tix here
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The #GoldsmithsPrize2018 is here! Meet our judges: Deborah Levy, Nicholas Lezard, Adam Mars-Jones & Elif Shafak.
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Tonight's the night! The #GoldsmithsPrize2019 shortlist readings at @GoldsmithsUoL . An evening of readings and discussion with Amy Arnold, @FictionAtelie , @mark_haddon , Deborah Levy, @VesnaMain , @isabelwaidner , & @EricaWgnr in the chair. It's a sell-out and we can't wait!
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Why M John Harrison won the 2020 Goldsmiths Prize
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The Goldsmiths Writers' Centre in association with the @NewStatesman presents the winner of the #GoldsmithsPrize2021 , @isabelwaidner ! Isabel will be in conversation with M. John Harrison on 26/1 at 7pm. FREE tickets for this online event here:
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'It's a radically strange book and strangeness is written into its whole DNA' #GoldsmithsPrize2020 chair of judges, Frances Wilson, on @mjohnharrison 's winning novel, The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again
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The winner of the #GoldsmithsPrize2015 is Kevin Barry's Beatlebone! Congratulations Kevin!!
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'The novel is a form that takes time, flips time, gives us time. . .' Ali Smith on just why the novel matters in tomorrow's @NewStatesman
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The winner of the @GoldsmithsPrize 2014 is Ali Smith with How to be both! Congratulations Ali!!! http://t.co/ENA9R5c9dm
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Today's the day! 🏆🎉📚 One of these amazing writers will win the #GoldsmithsPrize2023 . Announcement around 7. 15pm!
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We are delighted to announce the #GoldsmithsPrize2023 shortlist! Congratulations to our six brilliant novelists! 🎉🎉
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The winner of the #GoldsmithsPrize2018 , Robin Robertson, at last weekend's @camlitfest with @Tom_Gatti & @Elif_Safak . Pic by @acambridgediary .
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We're delighted to announce the 4th @NewStatesman / Goldsmiths Prize lecture: the remarkable EIMEAR MCBRIDE on Why the Novel Matters. The #GoldsmithsPrize2019 shortlist will be announced at the end of the evening. At @GoldsmithsUoL on 2/10. FREE tix here:
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The Goldsmiths Writers' Centre in association with the @NewStatesman presents the winner of the #GoldsmithsPrize2020 , the brilliant @mjohnharrison ! 7-8.30pm on Wednesday 20th January. Book your FREE tickets for this ONLINE event here:
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The #GoldsmithsPrize2017 is here! Meet our judges: Kevin Barry, A. L. Kennedy, Tracey Thorn & Naomi Wood:
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Today's the day! We'll be revealing our 2023 shortlist at 8pm. Watch this space 📣
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Next up in the Goldsmiths Prize events series, Eley Williams ( @GiantRatSumatra ) reading from her debut novel, The Liar's Dictionary, & in conversation. 12 February at 7pm. FREE tix here:
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Today's the day! We'll be announcing the winner of the #GoldsmithsPrize2018 tonight. Watch this space around 7.15pm!
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“These books are unabashedly singular and unafraid to take risks; side by side they represent the most exhilarating fiction of the year.” (Nell Stevens, Chair of Judges) Find out more about the #GoldsmithsPrize2021 shortlist on our website:
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Today's the day! We'll be announcing the winner of the #GoldsmithsPrize2021 tonight at around 7.30pm. Watch this space!
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'In my own writing I have aimed to defy the assumption that formally innovative literature should be a rarefied art form, of interest to an elite readership with a very particular educational capital only.' @isabelwaidner talks to @leorobsonwriter
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The #GoldsmithsPrize2022 judges, Ali Smith, Natasha Brown, Tom Gatti, & Tim Parnell, meeting to decide this year's shortlist. Announcement next week on Wednesday 5th October!
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The #GoldsmithsPrize2019 is here! Meet our judges: Maura Dooley, Guy Gunaratne, Anna Leszkiewicz, & Sjón.
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The waiting is very nearly over. We'll be announcing the winner of the #GoldsmithsPrize2020 tomorrow. Watch this space around 7.30pm!!🎺🎺🎉🎉
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‘I would die before I used a gimmick. The thing in art is to find the correct form. The word “gimmick” belittles that effort, it belittles art.’ #GoldsmithsPrize2019 nominee, Lucy Ellmann, talking Ducks, Newburyport:
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The fabulous 2023 shortlist (sans Man-Eating Typewriter) on sale @reviewbookshop in Peckham!
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WHY THE NOVEL MATTERS: the annual @NewStatesman / @GoldsmithsPrize lecture. Following Ali Smith & Howard Jacobson, the mighty @Elif_Safak delivers the third in the series, 7pm tomorrow evening @GoldsmithsUoL :
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'Life’s difficult! Literature should be difficult. Being a human is very confusing, I’m glad to be confused by literature. Obviously no one agrees with me, except one man in Wales on Twitter.' #GoldsmithsPrize2020
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This Wednesday at 7pm, The Goldsmiths Writers' Centre in association with the @NewStatesman presents the winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2019, the brilliant Lucy Ellmann! FREE tix here:
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'Thanks to the offences of patriarchy, a lot of the fun has gone out of being human, and I like books that look at life in less constricted ways.' #GoldsmithsPrize2019 winner, Lucy Ellmann ( @FictionAtelier ) talking books.
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The #GoldsmithsPrize2020 judges-- @WillEaves , Sarah Ladipo Manyika, @chris_power & Frances Wilson--meeting to decide this year's shortlist. Announcement on Wednesday 30th!!
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Warming up for the #GoldsmithsPrize2019 shortlist readings!
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Eimear McBride becomes the first Beckett Fellow
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Today's the day! We'll be announcing the winner of the #GoldsmithsPrize2017 tonight. Watch this space at around 7.15pm
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And, oh yes, we’ll also be announcing our 2019 shortlist on 2 October. Exciting! 🎉📚🎉 #goldsmithsprize2019
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The #GoldsmithsPrize2019 is here! Judge @Sjonorama on Lucy Ellmann's 'massive achievement of a novel': 'By running the world...through the mind of an Ohio woman...Ellmann gives us an inspired demonstration of what it’s like to be the warm vanishing point of a hostile universe.'
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A 'blistering take on the British elite and its poisonous relationship with immigration, work and sexual politics.' @JohannaTC Natasha Brown talking about, and reading from, her remarkable novel:
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Ahead of the winner announcement tomorrow (8/10 around 7. 15pm), a reminder of of the 6 wonderful novels on this year's shortlist 📚🎉🏆
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We are delighted to announce the #GoldsmithsPrize2023 shortlist! Congratulations to our six brilliant novelists! 🎉🎉
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The #GoldsmithsPrize2021 is here! Watch Chair of Judges, Nell Stevens, talking about our remarkable shortlist
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'Bina is fiction of the rarest and darkest kind, a work whose pleasures must be taken measure for measure with its pains' Congratulations @AnakanaSchofiel ! Anakana Schofield wins Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award for Bina via @IrishTimes
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‘There are writers who deprive themselves of humour to be serious . . . And they’re really annoying.’ Lucy Ellmann
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Tonight's the night! The @NewStatesman /Goldsmiths Prize lecture on Why the Novel Matters followed by our 2019 SHORTLIST announcement! 🎉🎺🎉
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The #GoldsmithsPrize2018 judges ( @Elif_Safak , Adam Mars- Jones (holding Deborah Levy), & @Nicklezard ) meeting to decide the winner!
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The #GoldsmithsPrize2021 is here! Meet our judges: Fred D'Aguiar @freddaguiar , Kamila Shamsie @kamilashamsie , Nell Stevens @nellstevens (Chair) & Johanna Thomas-Corr @JohannaTC .
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Missed @mjohnharrison in conversation with @EricaWgnr on Wednesday, or fancy listening to it again? Here it is! The winner of the #GoldsmithsPrize2020 , M. John Harrison, discussing The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again with Erica Wagner:
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The #GoldsmithsPrize2016 judges getting down to business:
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‘There is a multiplicity inside of us, which society tries to suppress, but it can come back to surface in art.’ - @Elif_Safak , judge of The Goldsmiths Prize 2018
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'Waidner has a live, distinctive intelligence that pushes form to make us see the world around us in new ways and perhaps even for the first time.' @kamilashamsie Watch @isabelwaidner read from their 'novel of friendship, art, injustice & all that can be imagined & unimagined.'
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Watch @FictionAtelier reading from her 'massive achievement of a novel' ( @Sjonorama ), Ducks, Newburyport #GoldsmithsPrize2019
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Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: #GoldsmithsPrize2018 judge, @Elif_Safak , on Mixing Faith and Doubt
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Coming on 5th October! The Goldsmiths Writers' Centre in association with the @NewStatesman presents the winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2021, Isabel Waidner! The evening will end with the announcement of our 2022 shortlist. FREE tickets here:
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'In a series of startling knights’ moves across our inner and outer landscapes, M. John Harrison quietly overturns all grounds for supposing we know who we are and where we have come from.' @WillEaves Watch M. John Harrison talking about his uncanny novel:
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For coverage of the #GoldsmithsPrize2017 winner announcement, listen to tonight's @BBCFrontRow
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The Goldsmiths Writers' Centre presents the #GoldsmithsPrize2017 Shortlist Readings on 1 Nov! FREE tickets here:
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Ali Smith on Nicola Barker: 'Would I call it balls, what Barker's got? No ... I'd use something a lot more gender non-specific .... Lifeforce? it certainly roars with something like life.'
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We are delighted to announce the 2023 @NewStatesman / Goldsmiths Prize lecture 🎺🎺 HELEN OYEYEMI: 'TRYING' Part of the @southbankcentre 's London Literature Festival: 📅 Sunday, 22 October, 7.45pm 🎟️ 👉
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'Even on the first page, I thought something extraordinary is happening here'. Judge @kamilashamsie on the winner of the #GoldsmithsPrize2021 , @isabelwaidner 's Sterling Karat Gold.
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'No one alive can write sentences as he can. He’s the missing evolutionary link between William Burroughs and Virginia Woolf' - Olivia Laing on M John Harrison #GoldsmithsPrize2020
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Twitter: 'You're getting a lot of notifications, would you like to set filters?' - that's a first for us! Go @isabelwaidner ! PS We said No.
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'Anna Kavan, Ann Quin, Virginia Woolf. All of them made a strange, alluring, essential language for the novel and were an inspiration when I first started writing.' Deborah Levy talks to #GoldsmithsPrize2019 judge, @annaleszkie
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Tonight’s the night! The #GoldsmithsPrize2017 shortlist readings at @GoldsmithsUoL
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