TheWritersPrize
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The Writers' Prize (formerly the Rathbones Folio Prize)
Celebrating the world's best English-language literature
& supporting the creative writers of tomorrow.
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The 6 spellbinding novels that make up the 2024 #WomensPrize for Fiction shortlist capture between their pages the enormous breadth of the human experience.
Congratulations to all the authors!
Audible UK 🎧 Baileys
Many congratulations to all! We're especially delighted to see our #nonfiction category winner #Thunderclap in the running 🥳
Such elation and gratitude to be shortlisted for the inaugural Women's Prize for Non-Fiction! Alongside a fellow journalist and not one but four professors! Thank you!
Many congratulations to all the shortlistees!
Especially delighted to see Laura Cumming and Naomi Klein nominated - their books made up 2/3 of the #writersprize2024 non-fiction shortlist🥳
If you've forgotten which books won the #writersprize2024 categories - and overall Book of the Year - here's a helpful guide!
uk.bookshop.org/lists/the-writ…
Many congratulations to all the authors on the dylanthomprize shortlist 👏
Excited to see books by Academy members Caleb Azumah Nelson and Mary Jean Chan celebrated!
Head over to the LRB bookshop blog for wonderful insight into our #BookoftheYear #writersprize2024 , 'The Home Child' by Liz Berry - an unforgettable novel in verse
Happy #WorldPoetryDay to all!
We're taking another look at these collections shortlisted by the Folio Academy for the #writersprize2024 by
Liz Berry Mary Jean Chan Jason Allen-Paisant
#poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #poetrytwitter
Spanning continents, all three 🌎
From the week: At London Book Fair: Writers’ Prize Names Its Winners | Porter Anderson publishingperspectives.com/2024/03/at-lon… | TheWritersPrize, formerly the #RathbonesFolio at The London Book Fair, 11-13 March 2025 #LBF24 , gives its top honor to Liz Berry's novel-in-verse.
So many congratulations to Anne Enright, whose wondrous novel 'The Wren, The Wren' won Fiction category at #writersprize2024
Anne said: 'It’s lovely to be voted for as opposed to judged, don’t ask me why, it just feels simpler, broader, more robust.'
Jonathan Cape
Vintage Books
What a week! Here's a radiantly happy Liz Berry, accepting the award for Book of the Year for her novel-in-verse and winner of the #Poetry category 'The Home Child'
#writersprize2024
Chatto&Windus
Congratulations again to Laura Cumming whose astonishing 'Thunderclap' won the Non-Fiction category
Chatto&Windus Vintage Books
#writersprize2024
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Our shortlistees at #thewritersprize2024 awards ceremony:
L-R: Jason Allen-Paisant Mary Jean Chan Liz Berry Laura Cumming @hannahwestland on behalf of Anne Enright, Paul Murray, Zadie Smith and Mark O'Connell
Naomi Klein couldn't join us but was there in spirit!