What’s On
Key dates for The Writers’ Prize, Folio Academy sessions and activities
Upcoming events
Monday 4 March 2024
7 pm / Online / Free – booking required
5 x 15 presents the shortlist
A powerhouse line-up of international writing talent – Jason Allen-Paisant, Liz Berry, Laura Cumming, Naomi Klein, Mark O’Connell, Paul Murray and Zadie Smith – join host Alex Clark to discuss their extraordinary recent works, all in contention for this year’s Prize.
Discussing life and death, fact and fiction, art and lies – and everything in between – these writers tackle the biggest themes in a multitude of forms, via the novel, memoir, creative non-fiction, and poetry.
Tuesday 5 March 2024
6pm / Hodges Figgis Dublin / Free – booking required
THE WRITERS’ PRIZE – HODGES FIGGIS
An evening of chat with author, editor and journalist Sinéad Gleeson talking with two Irish Authors shortlisted for The Writers’ Prize 2024: Paul Murray (The Bee Sting) and Mark O’Connell (A Thread of Violence)
Wednesday 13 March 2024
5pm, The London Book Fair
THE WRITERS’ PRIZE WINNERS CEREMONY
The winning books in each category of Fiction, Non-Fiction and Poetry will be announced, as well as the overall Book of the Year
Recent events
July 2023
The London Library
THE FOLIO MENTORSHIPS SHOWCASE
Our 2022/23 Folio Academy Mentors present work from the current cohort of mentees. Featuring:
Juno Szczawinska mentored by Emily Berry (top left)
Frankie Buchanan mentored by Sam Byers (top centre)
Lily Ritchie mentored by Diana Evans (top right)
Sadiqah Miah mentored by Frances Leviston (bottom left)
Qudsia Malik mentored by Chris Power (bottom centre)
Diana Ozola mentored by Momtaza Mehri (bottom right)
Thursday 18 May 2023
7.30pm, The Guildhall, Bath
SPOTLIGHT ON THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE
Tessa Hadley, Victoria Adukwei Bulley & Will Ashon
Former judge, shortlistee and founding member of the Rathbones Folio Academy, Tessa Hadley, herself a multi-award-winning author, will be joined byVictoria Adukwei Bulley, (Winner, Poetry 2023) and Will Ashon (shortlisted, Non-fiction 2023) in a conversation delving into the idea of readability, the pressures on creativity and what makes a work of ‘literature’. Chaired by Folio Academy Manager Tanya Andrews.
Monday 24 April 2023
6.30pm, The Showroom, University of Chichester PO19 6PE
WRITING, WAR, CONNECTION
A reflection on recent events
University of Chichester digital writer in residence Volodymyr Rafeienko, Guardian foreign correspondent and author Luke Harding, and poet and translator Sasha Dugdale talk about the act of witnessing through writing, and the effects of connection with other writers through times of war and great upheaval.
Live and in person at the University of Chichester – tickets are free but must be booked here
Monday 27 March 2023
PRIZE CEREMONY FOR THE 2023 RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE
Invitation only
In a gala ceremony live at the British Library, we announce the three category winners and the overall winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize 2023
