Deborah Rogers Award

CURRENTLY CLOSED

The biennial Deborah Rogers Award gives £10,000 to a previously unpublished writer whose submission of 15,000- 20,000 words demonstrates literary talent and who needs financial support to complete their first book. The submitted work can be fiction, non-fiction, children’s or short stories. Applicants must reside in the British Commonwealth or Ireland.

A literary agent all her professional life, Deborah Rogers (1938-2014) set up her own agency in 1967, and twenty years later formed Rogers Coleridge & White with Gill Coleridge and Pat White. Deborah was renowned for her taste, her loyalty and her immense generosity in the support she gave to authors. At the 2014 London Book Fair, Deborah was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award in International Publishing, the first agent to have been recognised in this way. Today she remains the only literary agent to have received that prestigious honour.  Her ability to spot extraordinary writing was borne out when two of the authors she spotted early on in their careers were later awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She was also  the first agent to represent a double Booker  Prize winner and remains the only one to have represented two double Booker Prize winners. As well as her peerless taste. Deborah’s particular genius lay in identifying and supporting talented young people.  Her curiosity was extraordinary and her modesty  and generosity exceptional. The Deborah Rogers Foundation (DRF) was therefore set up in her memory to continue to seek out and support emerging talent in the publishing world.

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David Miller Internship

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The David Miller internship Programme focuses on creating entry pathways for people from groups under-represented in the sector, offering an entry-level introduction to rights and agenting in publishing companies and literary agencies, aiming to give candidates a full understanding of the roles of rights professionals within the wider industry. The annual award supports two paid internships in London over a six-week period in September-October and includes a visit to the Frankfurt Book Fair. 

The David Miller Internship Programme is named in memory of RCW agent David Miller who died in 2016, and who was a founder director  of the DRF. 

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The work of the DRF

• 10 Years Supporting the Industry
• 27 Writers/Professionals Supported
• £100k+ invested in New Talent  (£76k is for Writers Award, plus 3.5 x 7 for interns plus Sam & Prema
• 9 Winning Books now in print