2025 Joyce Carol Oates Award Longlist
The 2025 Joyce Carol Oates Prize has announced its 33-title longlist. The award honors “mid-career authors in fiction,” and the winner receives a $50,000 prize and a residence at the University of California, Berkeley and/or Bay Area. The award is given by the New Literary Project. The 2025 longlist features several works of genre interest, including:
- Beautyland, Marie-Helene Bertino (FSG)
- Dead in Long Beach, California, Venita Blackburn (MCD)
- I Cheerfully Refuse, Leif Enger (Grove Atlantic)
- The Body Farm, Abby Geni (Counterpoint)
- Memory Piece, Lisa Ko (Riverhead)
- Terrace Story, Hilary Leichter (Ecco)
- The Road to the Country, Chigozie Obioma (Hogarth)
- We Were the Universe, Kimberly King Parsons (Knopf)
- Bear, Julia Phillips (Hogarth)
- State of Paradise, Laura van den Berg (FSG)
- The Horse, Willy Vlautin (Harper)
The finalists are expected to be announced in March 2025, with the winner being named in April 2025. For more information, including the complete list of finalists, see the New Literary Project website.
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