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NewLit is pleased to announce this year’s finalists for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. The Joyce Carol Oates Prize is a $50,000 award given by New Literary Project to a mid-career author of outstanding merit, an already emerged and still emerging author of national consequence, and one who can best represent and advance the mission of New Literary Project. The award is to encourage and support forthcoming work. This is the eighth year the JCO Prize will be awarded. The JCO Prize is a working prize, and the eventual recipient will take up brief residence at the University of California, Berkeley, and in the Bay Area including Saint Mary’s College of California–teaching and public speaking–during a period to be determined in Fall 2024. Thirty-one authors were earlier longlisted and considered. The jury, which handed up the shortlist to the Board of Directors, consisted of Laura Cogan, Mark Danner, Joseph Di Prisco, Hertha Dawn Sweet Wong, and David Wood. The NewLit Board of Directors, which judges and makes the final decision, will announce the Recipient in mid-April 2024. This year’s finalists with most recent book publication are: Jamel Brinkley, Witness (FSG)
Patricia Engel, The Faraway World (Avid Reader)
Ben Fountain, Devil Makes Three (Flatiron) Idra Novey, Take What You Need (Viking)
Bennett Sims, Other Minds and Other Stories (Two Dollar Radio)
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