The longlist for the 2024 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour has been released.

The annual award for literary humour grants a $25,000 prize to the winner and two $5,000 prizes to the runners-up. It has been awarded annually since 1947, and previous winners include Terry Fallis, W.O. Mitchell, Stuart McLean, and last year’s winner, Wayne Johnston.

This year, instead of the usual 10-book longlist, 11 books have been named to the list after three titles tied for 9th place, the Stephen Leacock Associates said in releasing the list.

The three finalists will be announced on May 21, with the winner to be named at a gala dinner in Orillia, Ont., on June 22.

The longlisted titles are:

• Simon Sort of Says by Erin Bow (Scholastic Canada)
• Coq by Ali Bryan (Freehand Books)
• What Any Normal Person Would Do by Suzanne Craig-Whytack (Dark Winter Press)
• Radio Jet Lag by Gregor Craigie (Cormorant Books)
• The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt (House of Anansi Press)
• The Road Years: A Memoir, Continued… by Rick Mercer (Doubleday Canada/PRHC)
• Lost Dogs by Lucie Pagé (Cormorant Books)
• Hollow Bamboo by William Ping (HarperCollins Publishers)
• The Cobra and the Key by Sam Shelstad (TouchWood Editions)
• Life at the Precipice by Ron Vincent (self-published)
• Girlfriend on Mars by Deborah Willis (Hamish Hamilton/PRHC)