2024 Young Lions Fiction Award Finalists

April 18, 2024 locusmag 0 Comments

The New York Public Library announced its five Young Lions Fiction Award finalists for 2024, including House of Cotton by Monica Brashears (Flatiron Books), Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Pantheon), and Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang (Riverhead Books).

The $10,000 prize is awarded “each spring to a writer age 35 or younger for a novel or a collection of short stories” by a panel of judges. 2021’s winner was Catherine Lacey’s Pew (Farrar, Straus, Giroux) and 2022’s winner was Kalani Pickhart’s I Will Die in a Foreign Land (Two Dollar Radio).

For the complete list of finalists, see the official website.

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