The 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction Longlist
“It has been a joy and an honor to select these outstanding books for The Carol Shields Prize longlist. Each of these works is extraordinary and original, showing us the path forward, out of suppression, into humanity and liberation.”
Eliza Barry Callahan
The Hearing Test (Catapult)
V Efua Prince
Kin: Practically True Stories (Wayne State University Press)
Anne Fleming
Curiosities (Knopf Canada)
Dominique Fortier
Pale Shadows, translated by Rhonda Mullins (Coach House Books)
Miranda July
All Fours (Riverhead Books)
Mubanga Kalimamukwento
Obligations to the Wounded (University of Pittsburgh Press)
Oonya Kempadoo
Naniki (Rare Machines)
Rachel Kushner
Creation Lake (Scribner)
Canisia Lubrin
Code Noir (Knopf Canada/Soft Skull Press)
Sarah Manguso
Liars (Hogarth)
Erica McKeen
Cicada Summer (W. W. Norton & Company)
Julia Phillips
Bear (Hogarth)
Aube Rey Lescure
River East, River West (William Morrow)
O.O. Sangoyomi
Masquerade (Forge)
Sharon Wahl
Everything Flirts: Philosophical Romances (University of Iowa Press)
