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2023 DRF Writers Award submissions open 01.01.2023

The 2023 DRF Writers Award will open for submissions on 1st January 2023 and close on 31st March. The judges will be the 2021 Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah (Chair), along with award-winning novelist, Claire Adam, and the renowned writer and journalist, Annalena McAfee. The winner will be announced in October 2023. You can find more about this year’s award on the Writer's Award page.

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Submissions to the 2020 Writers’ Award are now closed.
The winner will be announced in mid-May 2020 and shortlisted writers will be contacted directly.
Deborah Rogers Foundation Announce 2020 DRF Writers Award
Submissions for the DRF 2020 Writers Award can be made between 1st June 2019 until 31st October 2019.
Announcement of winner of the DRF David Miller Bursary Award
The winner of the inaugural Deborah Rogers Foundation Bursary Award is Prema Raj
Applications for the 2019 DRF David Miller Bursary are now closed
The winner will be announced in February 2019. For more information about the DRF David Miller Bursary please visit the bursary page.
The Deborah Rogers Foundation announces the second David Miller Bursary of £10,000 to be awarded in March 2019
The Deborah Rogers Foundation announced that applications are now open for the second David Miller Bursary. Candidates have until 16th December to apply. Applications should be made via the website.
Announcement of winner of the 2018 Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award
The winner of the 2018 Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award is Deepa Anappara for Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line, a work of fiction.
Shortlist of three announced for the 2018 Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award.
Judges Anne Enright, Pete Hobbs and Jenny Uglow announce the shortlist for the 2018 £10,000 DRF Award. Three are chosen out of 752 entries. Winner to be announced on 16th May at Award ceremony in London
Writers Award Winner Sharlene Teo to be published in April
We are delighted that the winner of the inaugural Writers Award, Sharlene Teo’s debut novel, Ponti, will be published by Picador in the UK in April 2018 and by Simon & Schuster in the US in September 2018. It is currently sold in seven other languages.
Writers Award shortlisted author Guy Stagg’s ‘The Crossway’ to be published in June
The Crossway is an account of Guy Stagg’s extraordinary pilgrimage from Canterbury to Jerusalem. It will be published by Picador on the 14th June 2018 and will be BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week from the 18th June 2018.
Sam Coates, winner of The DRF David Miller Bursary, reports on his time at four publishers
The winner of the inaugural DRF David Miller Bursary, Sam Coates, has reported on his time spent at four different publishing companies. The report is now available to read in this post.