Clockwise from top left: Longlisted Canadian authors Anne Fleming; Dominique Fortier (Carl Lessard); Rhonda Mullins (Owen Egan); Erica McKeen; Canisia Lubrin (Rachel Eliza Griffiths); Oonya Kempadoo.

The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction has announced its 15-title longlist for the 2025 prize.

The $150,000 (U.S.) prize, named after the American-born and Canadian-based author Carol Shields, acknowledges, celebrates, and promotes the best works of fiction written by women and non-binary writers in Canada and the United States. In addition to a cash prize, the winner will also receive a five-night stay at Fogo Island Inn. The four finalists receive $12,500 (U.S.). This is the third year it will be awarded.

Canadian authors Anne Fleming, Dominique Fortier, Oonya Kempadoo, Canisia Lubrin, and Erica McKeen are among the writers on this year’s longlist. Canadian translator Rhonda Mullins is also on the longlist for her translation of Fortier’s novel.

The shortlist will be announced on April 3, with the winner to be named at an event in Chicago on May 1.

This year’s books were selected by a jury comprised of writers Diana Abu-Jaber, Norma Dunning, Kim Fu, Tessa McWatt, and Jeanne Thornton.

The 15 titles longlisted for the 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction are:

• The Hearing Test by Eliza Barry Callahan (Catapult)
• Kin: Practically True Stories by V Efua Prince (Made in Michigan Writers Series/Wayne State University Press)
• Curiosities by Anne Fleming (Knopf Canada/Penguin Random House Canada)
• Pale Shadows by Dominique Fortier, translated by Rhonda Mullins (Coach House Books)
• All Fours by Miranda July (Riverhead Books/Penguin Random House)
• Obligations to the Wounded by Mubanga Kalimamukwento (University of Pittsburgh Press)
• Naniki by Oonya Kempadoo (Rare Machines/Dundurn Press)
• Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner (Scribner/Simon & Schuster)
• Code Noir by Canisia Lubrin (Knopf Canada/PRHC)
• Liars by Sarah Manguso (Hogarth/Penguin Random House)
• Cicada Summer by Erica McKeen (W. W. Norton & Company)
• Bear by Julia Phillips (Hogarth/PRH)
• River East, River West by Aube Rey Lescure (William Morrow/Harpercollins Publishers)
• Masquerade by O.O. Sangoyomi (Forge/Macmillan Publishers)
• Everything Flirts: Philosophical Romances by Sharon Wahl (University of Iowa Press)