The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction is online here.

2024 Judges: Laila Lailami, Jen Sookfong Lee, Claire Messud, Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Eden Robinson

Shortlisted:

✔Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood
✔Claudia Day’s Daughter
✔Kim Coleman Foote’s Coleman Hill
✔V.V. Ganeshananthan’s Brotherless Night
✔Janike Oza’s A History of Burning

Longlisted:

✔Lisa Alward’s Cocktail
Nicole Cuffy’s Dances
Aisha Abdel Gawad’s Between Two Moons
Tania James’ Loot
Juliana Lamy’s You Were Watching from the Sand
✔Catherine Leroux’s The Future (Trans. Susan Ouriou)
Rebecca Makkai’s I Have Some Questions for You 
✔Mona Susan Power’s A Council of Dolls
✔Anuja Varghese’s Chrysalis
✔C. Pam Zhang’s Land of Milk and Honey

2023 Judges: Anita Rau Badami, Merilyn Simonds, Monique Truong, katherena vermette, and Crystal Wilkinson

Winner: ✔Fatimah Asghar’s When We Were Sisters

Shortllisted:

✔Daphne Palasi Andreades’ Brown Girls
✔Talia Lakshmi Kolluri’s What We Fed to the Manticore
✔Suzette Mayr’s The Sleeping Car Porter
✔Alexis Schaitkin’s Elsewhere

Longlisted:

✔Andrea Barrett’s Natural History: Stories
Lisa Hsiao Chen’s Activities of Daily Living
✔Francine Cunningham’s God Isn’t Here Today
✔Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s Woman of Light
Liana Finck’s Let There Be Light
✔Emma Hooper’s We Should Not Be Afraid of the Sky
Gish Jen’s Thank You, Mr. Nixon
Chelene Knight’s Junie
✔Tsering Yangzom Lama’s We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies
✔Namwali Serpell’s The Furrows: A Novel