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Thirty-two authors have been longlisted for the 2025 Joyce Carol Oates Prize by New Literary Project (NewLit). The annual $50,000 award honors a mid-career author of fiction in the midst of a burgeoning career, a distinguished writer who has emerged and is still emerging. The Prize celebrates past achievement and supports forthcoming work. The 2025 JCO Prize will be the ninth such yearly award. The Joyce Carol Oates Prize is awarded not in recognition of a book, but for an author of national consequence—short stories and/or novels—who has published at least two notable books of fiction, and who has yet to receive capstone recognition such as a Pulitzer, National Book Award, or MacArthur. Otherwise, there are no age, geographic, or stylistic restrictions. 2025 JCO Prize Longlisted Authors & Most Recent Book of Fiction Rumaan Alam, Entitlement, Riverhead Jami Attenberg, A Reason to See You Again, Ecco Marie-Helene Bertino, Beautyland, FSG Venita Blackburn, Dead in Long Beach, California, MCD Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot, Viking Ryan Chapman, The Audacity, Soho Jennine Capo Crucet, Say Hello to My Little Friend, Simon & Schuster Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse, Grove Atlantic Amina Gautier, The Best That You Can Do, Soft Skull Thomas Grattan, In Tongues, MCD Abby Geni, The Body Farm, Counterpoint Cristina Henríquez, The Great Divide, Ecco Maria Hummel, Goldenseal, Counterpoint Miranda July, All Fours, Riverhead Porochista Khakpour, Tehrangeles, Pantheon Crystal Hana Kim, The Stone Home, William Morrow / HarperCollins Lisa Ko, Memory Piece, Riverhead R. O. Kwon, Exhibit, Riverhead Caroline Leavitt, Days of Wonder, Algonquin Hilary Leichter, Terrace Story, Ecco Sarah Manguso, Liars, Hogarth Chigozie Obioma, The Road to the Country, Hogarth Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars, Knopf Kimberly King Parsons, We Were the Universe, Knopf Julia Philips, Bear, Hogarth Andrew Porter, The Disappeared, Knopf Regina Porter, The Rich People Have Gone Away, Hogarth Rudy Ruiz, The Border Between Us, Blackstone Danzy Senna, Colored Television, Riverhead Morgan Talty, Fire Exit, Tin House Laura van den Berg, State of Paradise, FSG Willy Vlautin, The Horse, Harper Previous Winners of the Joyce Carol Oates Prize include: Ben Fountain (2024) Manuel Muñoz (2023) Lauren Groff (2022) Danielle Evans (2021) Daniel Mason (2020) Laila Lalami (2019) Anthony Marra (2018) T. Geronimo Johnson (2017)
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