Meet the 2025 Joyce Carol Oates Prize Winners
Jennine Capó Crucet & Willy Vlautin
in conversation with Joyce Carol Oates and NewLit’s Joe Di Prisco
Clockwise from top left: Jennine Capó Crucet, Joyce Carol Oates, Joe Di Prisco, and Willy Vlautin.
Jennine Capó Crucet, of North Carolina, and Willy Vlautin, of Oregon, have been named the ninth and tenth Recipients of the 2025 Joyce Carol Oates Prizes (JCO) awarded by New Literary Project (NewLit). Each receives $50,000 on the occasion of NewLit’s tenth anniversary in 2025.
Jennine Capó Crucet’s most recent publication is Say Hello to My Little Friend, Simon & Schuster (2024). Willy Vlautin’s is The Horse, HarperCollins (2024).
The annual JCO Prize honors mid-career authors of fiction who advance the vision and mission of NewLit–to drive social change and unleash artistic power across the generations and the nation.
Read the full press release about the award.
Join us for what will be a wonderful conversation about their work and literature.