C.D. Rose, winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2025

The Goldsmiths Writers' Centre in association with the New Statesman presents C.D. Rose, reading from his winning novel, We Live Here Now, and in conversation with chair of judges, Amy Sackville.

'A book about what art is and what it does (or doesn’t do), C.D. Rose’s We Live Here Now in its turn asks profound questions of the contemporary world and the systems that power it, in the aether, deep under the surface, far out at sea. Motifs emerge and recur: containers, erasures, shady markets, sound and silence, ‘echo and drone’. This constellatory novel tests the bounds of the form while delivering all of its satisfactions: at once hilarious and deeply haunting, intellectually challenging and supremely entertaining' (Amy Sackville).

C.D. Rose is the author of four previous books, including The Blind Accordionist and Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea. His short stories have appeared in Gorse, 3AM, The Quietus, and Best British Short Stories. He currently lives in Hebden Bridge.