Alumni

Goldsmiths is an internationally renowned centre for creative writing. Our alumni are among the leading writers today, with many winning or being shortlisted for top literary prizes.

Award-winning alumni

Goldsmiths writers include Booker Prize winner, Bernadine Evaristo (PhD); Emily Berry (MA, Forward Prize winner and T S Eliot Shortlisted); Lucy Caldwell (MA, winner of Walter Scott Prize and the Dylan Thomas Prize); Evie Wyld (MA, winner of the Encore Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Miles Franklin Award and the Stella Prize); Anthony Joseph (MA, PhD, T S Eliot Prize winner); Kae Tempest (BA, Ivor Novello and Ted Hughes Award winner, two time Mercury Music Prize nominee); Rachael Allen (BA, Northern Writer’s award and an Eric Gregory award, poetry editor at Granta and Fitzcaraldo;) and Raymond Antrobus MBE (MA, winner of the Ted Hughes Award and the Rathbones Folio Prize). In the last ten years alone, thirteen of our graduate poets have been winners of the prestigious Eric Gregory Award given by the Society of Authors to poets under 30.

Working in journalism and non-fiction 

Our graduates also work in journalism and non-fiction, with writers including gal-dem magazine founder Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff (BA, New York Times and Guardian); former Associate Editor at Vice and music editor at Dazed and Confused, Daisy Jones (Vogue, Guardian, i-D) and Felix Petty, Head of Content at Kaleidscope and Capsule magazines, and former Executive Editor at i-D Magazine (Dazed and Confused, Vice, The Spectator). 

Other Goldsmiths writers include: Ross Raisin (MA, Granta Best of Young British Novelist, Royal Society of Literature Fellowship); Livia Franchini (BA), Ella Frears (BA, Forward Prize and T S Eliot Prize shortlisted); Jack Underwood (MA, PhD, Eric Gregory and Somerset Maugham award winner and T S Eliot shortlisted); Rachel Long (MA, Costa Book Prize and Jhalak Prize shortlisted; Aria Aber (BA, Whiting Award, Prairie Schooner Prize, Wallace Stegnor Fellowship) and Phoebe Stuckes (BA, Geoffrey Dearmer prize and four-time winner of the Foyle Young Poet of the Year award). 

 

Recent publications by Goldsmiths alumni include: 

• Aria Aber, Good Girl (2025); Hard Damage (2019)
• Abi Andrews, The Word for Woman is Wilderness (2018)
• Raymond Antrobus, Signs, Music (2024); All the Names Given (2021)
• Rachael Allen, God Complex (2024); Kingdomland (2019)
• Lucy Caldwell, These Days (2022)
• Paddy Crewe, My Name is Yip (2022)
• Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other (2019)
• Livi Franchini, Shelf Life (2020)
• Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour (2021)
• Anthony Joseph, Precious and Impossible (2024); Sonnets for Albert (2022)
• Momtaza Mehri, Bad Diaspora Poems (2023)
• Ross Raisin, A Hunger (2023); A Natural (2018)
• Phoebe Stuckes, Dead Animals (2024)
• Dizz Tate, Brutes (2023)
• Kae Tempest, On Connection (2022)
• Jack Underwood, A Year in the New Life (2021); Not Even This: Poetry, Parenthood and Living Uncertainly (2021)
• Kandace Siobhan Walker, Cowboy (2023)
• Evie Wyld, The Echoes (2024); The Bass Rock (2021)