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The Prize is offered by New Literary Project, collaborating with our marquee partner, the University of California, Berkeley, English Department. The Prize recognizes emerged and continually emerging fiction authors of major consequence and promise—short stories and/or novels—at the relatively middle stage of a burgeoning career. By mid-career we mean an author of at least two published full-length works of fiction, one who has not yet achieved capstone recognition. Prize winners receive the award to encourage and support forthcoming work.
The 2023 JCO Prize will be our seventh such award. Since 2017, we have longlisted 238 writers from 47 publishers, 31 of whom became finalists, and six JCO Prize Recipients. We very much look forward to this year’s nominees, and to collaborating with their publishers to celebrate their distinguished achievement.
Previous Winners:
2017 T. Geronimo Johnson, author of Welcome to Braggsville (HarperCollins)
2018 Anthony Marra, author of The Tsar of Love and Techno (Hogarth)
2019 Laila Lalami, author of The Other Americans (Pantheon)
2020 Daniel Mason, author of The Winter Soldier (Little, Brown)
2021 Danielle Evans, author of The Office of Historical Corrections (Riverhead)
2022 Lauren Groff, author of Matrix (Riverhead)
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