Helen oyeyemi and maddie mortimer to judge the 2023 goldsmiths prize

The novelists Helen Oyeyemi and Maddie Mortimer have been announced as judges for this year’s Goldsmiths Prize, which celebrates “fiction that breaks the mould”. Oyeyemi is the author of ten

books, including _What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours_ and _Gingerbread_. Her most recent novel, _Peaces_, was shortlisted for last year’s Goldsmiths Prize, as was Mortimer’s debut novel, _Maps

of Our Spectacular Bodies_, which was also longlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Desmond Elliott Prize. The judging panel will be chaired by Tom Lee, a lecturer in creative writing at

Goldsmiths University and the author of a collection of short stories, _Greenfly_, and a novel, _The Alarming Palsy of James Orr_. Completing the panel is Ellen Peirson-Hagger, the _New

Statesman_’s assistant culture editor. Lee said: “Over the past ten years the Goldsmiths Prize has changed the literary landscape, and I am thrilled to be chairing the panel of judges as it

continues to discover and celebrate the most innovative novels of 2023.” Launched in association with the _New Statesman _in 2013, the Goldsmiths Prize awards the author of “a piece of

fiction that breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the novel form” with £10,000. The prize will open for submissions on 27 January and the winner will be announced in November

2023. Last year’s Goldsmiths Prize went – for the first time – to a duo. Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams won for _Diego Garcia__ _(Fitzcarraldo Editions), a collaborative work that

took ten years to complete. Previous winners of the prize include Eimear McBride, Ali Smith, Kevin Barry, M John Harrison and Isabel Waidner. _[SEE ALSO: WHY DIEGO GARCIA IS THE GOLDSMITHS

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