shortlisted for the gordon burn prize!
GDLP
nice news today. our book Poor Artists SURVIVED THE LONGLIST BATTLE ROYALE and we have been shortlisted for the gordon burn prize (which ‘recognises exceptional writing which has an unconventional perspective, style or subject matter and often defies easy categorisation’)
SHORTLIST:
✅ Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel (Daunt Originals)
✅ Ootlin by Jenni Fagan (Hutchinson Heinemann)
✅ Mrs Jekyll by Emma Glass (CHEERIO)
✅ Poor Artists by Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad (The White Pube) (Particular Books)
✅ Only Here, Only Now by Tom Newlands (Phoenix)
✅ The Lasting Harm: Witnessing the Trail of Ghislaine Maxwell by Lucia Osborne-Crowley (4th Estate)
a funny position to be, so often judging prizes, or judging the fact that prizes exist. feels good though. Looking forward to going to Newcastle for the ceremony! looking forward to reading the rest of the shortlist and then deciding for myself who should get the prize like the weirdo critic i really am