The Carol Shields Prize longlist 2024

The 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction longlist has been anounced!

The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction is the first major English-language literary prize to celebrate creativity and excellence in fiction by women and non-binary writers in Canada and the United States, awarding $150,000 USD to its winner, and $12,500 USD to each of its four finalists.

Explore the 15 longlisted titles below.

• Cocktail by Lisa Alward
• Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
• Dances by Nicole Cuffy
• Daughter by Claudia Dey
• Coleman Hill by Kim Coleman Foote
• Brotherless Night by V. V. Ganeshananthan
• Between Two Moons by Aisha Abdel Gawad
• Loot by Tania James
• You Were Watching from the Sand by Juliana Lamy
• The Future by Catherine Leroux (translated by Susan Ouriou)
• I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
• A History of Burning by Janika Oza
• A Council of Dolls by Mona Susan Power
• Chrysalis by Anuja Varghese
• Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang
  

The 5 shortlisted titles will be announced on April 9 and the winner on May 13. Learn more about this exciting prize here.