2025 PEN/Faulkner Shortlist
The five-title 2025 PEN/Faulkner shortlist for fiction has been announced, with titles and authors of genre interest, including Ghostroots by ’Pemi Aguda (Norton) and James by Percival Everett (Doubleday).
The prize “honors the best published works of fiction by American citizens in a calendar year.” This year’s judges are Bruce Holsinger, Deesha Philyaw, and Luis Alberto Urrea.
The “first among equals” winner will be announced in April. The finalists and winner will be honored at the PEN/Faulkner Award Celebration, held at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, DC on 15 May 2025. The winner will receive $15,000 and finalists will each receive $5,000. For more information, including the complete longlist, see the PEN/Faulkner website.
Previous finalists and winners of genre interest can be found in past Locus coverage of the PEN/Faulkner Awards.
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