We are pleased to provide this report on the successful completion of the David Miller Internship Programme (DMIP) by Phoebe Turner and Margo Ivanova. As always, your collective commitment was instrumental in achieving the programme's objectives.

'Our summer newsletter is full of introductions - to the talented writers who have generously agreed to give up their time to judge the 2027 Deborah Rogers Award, and to the two young people who have won a place in this autumn's David Miller Internship Programme.' Gill Coleridge, Founder of the DRF

Bernardine Evaristo chairs a panel of three judges. Two past winners celebrate publication in 2027.

Neil Rollinson’s The Dead Don’t Bleed, winner of the 2025 Deborah Rogers Award is published by Jonathan Cape to great acclaim

Mathelinda Nabugodi’s book of essays, The Trembling Hand: Reflections of a Black Woman in the Romantic Archive, is published by Hamish Hamilton. The Trembling Hand was winner of the 2021 Deborah Rogers Award.