Meet the shortlist and find out who has won one of our major literary awards.
Join us for the live announcement of the winner of the 2021 Rathbones Folio Prize, hosted from the British Library by Razia Iqbal, and featuring the shortlist authors alongside the judges Roger Robinson, Jon McGregor and Sinéad Gleeson.

The Rathbones Folio Prize, also known as The Writers' Prize, is the only literary prize to award the best book of the year regardless of form, and to be wholly nominated and judged by other authors.

As we build up to the big moment, you will meet the eight shortlisted authors as they discuss their books and writing processes and hear from the judges, Roger Robinson, Jon McGregor and Sinéad Gleeson, who had the task of selecting just one winner from 80 nominated titles.
The shortlisted titles are:

handiwork – Sara Baume (Tramp Press)
Indelicacy – Amina Cain (Daunt Books)
As You Were – Elaine Feeney (Harvill Secker)
Poor – Caleb Femi (Penguin)
My Darling from the Lions – Rachel Long (Picador)
In the Dream House: A Memoir – Carmen Maria Machado (Serpent’s Tail)
A Ghost in the Throat – Doireann Ní Ghríofa (Tramp Press)
The Mermaid of Black Conch – Monique Roffey (Peepal Tree Press)