Interviews

Meet the Best Debut Novelists of the Year, Literary Hub.

Colwill Brown: “Romanticising a place is only another way to diminish it.” The 2025 Goldsmith Prize-shortlisted author on the poetry of the South Yorkshire dialect and paradigm-shifting novels, The New Statesman.

BBC National Short Story Award and Young Writers Award, Front Row, BBC Radio 4.

Interview with Kirsty Wark on Front Row, BBC Radio 4.

Check this Out! with Rachel Barenbaum, NHPR.

Colwill Brown’s Music Playlist for her novel We Pretty Pieces of Flesh, Large Hearted Boy.

press

Books of the Year 2025: Authors and critics pick their favourites, The Irish Times.

Top writers pick their favourite titles across the genres, Irish Independent.

The Best Fiction of 2025, The Guardian.

The Best Books of 2025, The London Magazine.

The Best Debut Books of 2025, Debutiful.

The Year Novelists Reclaimed the Narrative, Wall Street Journal.

Debut author Colwill Brown wins BBC short story award for ‘heartbreaking’ tale, The Guardian.

The Goldsmiths Prize 2025 celebrates new perspectives, The New Statesman.

Chatto & Windus signs ‘searing’ debut about working-class friendship, The Bookseller.

Doncaster deal for Chatto, BookBrunch.

REVIEWS

The Critic.

The Guardian.

Wall Street Journal.

Booklist (starred review).

Publishers Weekly.

Kirkus Reviews (starred review).

podcasts

Debutiful Podcast: How Doncaster and Disability Shaped and Re-Shaped Colwill Brown’s writing.

7am Novelist: Colwill Brown on the Art of the Sentence (& Training Your Ear to Hear it).

7am Novelist: Climaxes and Endings with Colwill Brown and Crystal King.

publications

You Cannot Thread a Moving Needle, BBC National Short Story Award 2025 (Comma Press).

You Cannot Thread a Moving Needle, BBC National Short Story Award, BBC Radio 4 & BBC Sounds, performed by Sophie McShera.

Victory, Literary Hub.

Inheritance | Locks, Prairie Schooner.

Knickers, Granta.

Twin Wrecks, Hinterland.