Neil Rollinson’s The Dead Don’t Bleed, winner of the 2025 Deborah Rogers Award is published by Jonathan Cape to great acclaim
Neil Rollison was our winner in 2023 for his novel, The Dead Don't Bleed. It was published by Jonathan Cape in 2026 to great acclaim.
Sarah Hall declared it “a thrilling, deep-song, high-proof novel that’s brilliantly imagined, gorgeously crafted and several cuts above the usual debut”, the Guardian that it is “extraordinarily tense and tender” while the Times called it “terse, bloody and vivid”.Neil Rollison was our winner in 2023 for his novel, The Dead Don't Bleed. It was published by Jonathan Cape in 2026 to great acclaim.
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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.
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Award winner, Saranya Murthi, and the news that both the David Miller
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Erica Wagner announces Saranya Murthi's novel RATRI as winner of the 2025 Deborah Rogers Award. June Aming and Piers Kobina Buckman were shortlisted for their novels. The winner receives £10k and the two shortlisted writers, £3k each.
The judges of the 2025 Deborah Rogers Award—renowned author and literary critic Erica Wagner (chair), award-winning playwright and poet Inua Ellams, and acclaimed writer, classicist, and broadcaster Natalie Haynes —are pleased to announce the three contenders for this year's prize.
The Deborah Rogers Foundation (DRF) marks a decade of supporting emerging literary talent with a refreshed identity for its flagship prize, now renamed the Deborah Rogers Award.
On 4 November, judges Erica Wagner, Inua Ellams and Natalie Haynes will award the winner £10,000 to complete their first book, with highly commended entries receiving £3,000 each.
Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award celebrates its first decade with a new name: the Deborah Rogers Award. On 2 November, judges Erica Wagner, Inua Ellams and Natalie Haynes will award the winner £10,000 to complete their first book, with highly commended entries receiving £3,000 each.