2022 Joyce Carol Oates Prize Longlist
The 2022 Joyce Carol Oates Prize has announced its 37-title longlist. The award honors “mid-career authors in fiction,” and the winner receives a $50,000 prize, given by the New Literary Project. Authors of genre interest, along with their most recent titles, include:
- The Turnout, Megan Abbott (Putnam)
- Appleseed, Matt Bell (Custom House)
- How to Wrestle a Girl, Venita Blackburn (MCD)
- Sleepwalk, Dan Chaon (Henry Holt)
- The Swank Hotel, Lucy Corin (Graywolf)
- Embassy Wife, Katie Crouch (FSG)
- The Trees, Percival Everett (Graywolf)
- Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch, Rivka Galchen (FSG)
- Matrix, Lauren Groff (Riverhead)
- Life Among the Terranauts, Caitlin Horrocks (Little, Brown)
- Something New Under the Sun, Alexandra Kleeman (Hogarth)
- The Plot, Jean Hanff Korelitz (Celadon)
- Vengeance, Zachary Lazar (Catapult)
- The Arrest, Jonathan Lethem (Ecco)
- Hell of a Book, Jason Mott (Dutton)
- Book of Form and Emptiness, Ruth Ozeki (Viking)
- I Hold a Wolf, Laura van den Berg (FDG)
- Monster in the Middle, Tiphanie Yanique (Riverhead)
The finalists are expected to be announced in early March 2022, with the winner being named in April 2022. For more information, including the complete list of finalists, see the New Literary Project website.
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