The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction is online here.

2025 Judges: Diana Abu-Jaber (Jury Chair), Norma Dunning, Kim Fu, Tessa McWatt, and Jeanne Thornton.

Shortlisted: Announced April 3, 2025

Longlisted:

Eliza Barry Callahan’s The Hearing Test
V. Efua Prince’s Kin: Practically True Stories
Anne Fleming’s Curiosities
✔Dominique Fortier’s Pale Shadows (Trans. Rhonda Mullins)
Miranda July’s All Fours
Mubanga Kalimamukwento’s Obligations to the Wounded
Oonya Kempadoo’s Naniki
Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake
Canisia Lubrin’s Code Noir 
Sarah Manguso’s Liars
Erica McKeen’s Cicada Summer
Julia Phillips’ Bear
Aube Rey Lescure’s River East, River West
O.O. Sangoyomi’s Masquerade
Sarah Whal’s Everything Flirts: Philosophical Romances

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

Winner: ✔V.V. Ganeshananthan’s Brotherless Night

✔Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood
✔Claudia Day’s Daughter
✔Kim Coleman Foote’s Coleman Hill
✔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