2018 Simpson Prize Longlist Announced

Jane Alison, Nine Island (Catapult)

Ramona Ausubel, Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty (Riverhead)

Whitney Burnett, The Good Lieutenant (Picador)

Bonnie Jo Campbell, Mothers, Tell Your Daughters (Norton)

Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (Ecco)

Amina Gautier, The Loss of All Lost Things (Elixir Press)

Andrew Sean Greer, Less (Lee Boudreaux Books) [division of Little, Brown]

Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies (Riverhead)

Jennifer Haigh, Heat and Light (Ecco)

Greg Hrbek, Not on Fire, But Burning (Melville House)

Samantha Hunt, The Dark Dark (FSG)

Louis B. Jones, Innocence (Counterpoint)

Paul LaFarge, The Night Ocean (Penguin)

Robert Lopez, Good People (Bellevue)

Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs (Penguin)

Anthony Marra, The Tsar of Love and Techno (Hogarth)

Elizabeth McKenzie, The Portable Veblen (Penguin)

Edie Meidav, Kingdom of the Young (Sarabande)

Maile Meloy, Do Not Become Alarmed (Riverhead)

Fiona Maazel, A Little More Human (Graywolf)

Rebecca Makkai, Music for Wartime (Penguin)

Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World (Penguin)

Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere (Penguin)

Dexter Palmer, Version Control (Vintage)

Hannah Pittard Listen to Me (Mariner)

Martin Pousson, Black Sheep Boy (Rare Bird)

Eric Puchner, Last Day on Earth (Scribner)

Selah Saterstrom, Slab (Coffee House Press)

Michelle Richmond, The Marriage Pact (Bantam)

Patrick Ryan, The Dream Life of Astronauts (Dial)

Danzy Senna, New People (Riverhead)

Maggie Shipstead, Astonish Me (Vintage) 

Emma Straub, Modern Lovers (Riverhead)

J. Courtney Sullivan, Saints for All Occasions (Knopf)

Deb Olin Unferth, Wait Till You See Me Dance (Graywolf Press)

Kevin Wilson, Perfect Little World (Ecco)