2022 Joyce Carol Oates Prize Longlist Announced & Celebrated
OAKLAND, CA, November 10, 2021—Longlisted Authors for the 6th Annual 2022 Joyce Carol Oates Prize honoring mid-career authors in fiction were celebrated today at a private virtual ceremony. The $50,000 prize will be awarded to an author of fiction in the middle of a burgeoning career. The New Literary Project (formerly the Simpson Literary Project) administers the prize, collaborating with the University of California, Berkeley, English Department. Thirty-seven Longlist authors were selected from official submissions by publishers, agents, authors, and author representatives.
Our distinguished Joyce Carol Oates Prize Longlisted Authors embody the inspiring richness and vitality of storytelling in our country. The New Literary Project, with our investment in writing and teaching across a great social and generational spectrum, celebrates stories and their makers, and we affirm the best of our diverse culture and underscore our shared humanity.
—Joseph Di Prisco, Chair, New Literary Project
Finalists are expected to be named in early March 2022, followed by a Winner named in April 2022. Recipients will participate in virtual or non-virtual events. The Prize Winner will be in brief residence at Cal and in the Bay Area at a time to be determined in 2022–23.
The New Literary Project, established in 2016, inspires and equips writers across generations, in the words of Oates, “to write their hearts out.”
NLP fosters new literature, supports authors, and enhances the lives of readers, writers, educators, and students in diverse communities in California and the nation. The Project serves high-school age writers through Simpson Writing Workshops, offered at no charge, to schools and after-school programs, taught by Simpson Fellows, who are graduate student creative writers from the Berkeley English Department. Five workshops will take place this spring at Girls Inc-Alameda County, Contra Costa County Juvenile Hall, and elsewhere. In addition, Jack Hazard Fellowships are annually awarded in the summer to creative writers who are high school educators, to acknowledge them and afford them freedom to write. Simpsonistas Vol. 3, the annual anthology of Project-related authors, recently appeared.
The eminent Joyce Carol Oates continues as an honorary member of the Board of Directors. Previous winners of the Prize are: T. Geronimo Johnson, author of Welcome to Braggsville (HarperCollins) (2017); Anthony Marra, author ofThe Tsar of Love and Techno(Hogarth) (2018); Laila Lalami, author of The Other Americans (Pantheon) (2019); Daniel Mason, author of The Winter Soldier (Little, Brown, & Co.) (2020); Danielle Evans, author of The Office of Historical Corrections (Riverhead) (2021).
LONGLISTED AUTHORS: 2022 JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE
AND THEIR MOST RECENT TITLES:
Megan Abbott, The Turnout, Putnam
Kristen Arnett, With Teeth, Riverhead
Christopher Beha, The Index of Self-destructive Acts, Tin House
Matt Bell, Appleseed, Custom House
Venita Blackburn, How to Wrestle a Girl, MCD
Amina Cain, Indelicacy, FSG
Dan Chaon, Sleepwalk, Henry Holt
Joshua Cohen, The Netanyahus, New York Review Books
Lucy Corin, The Swank Hotel, Graywolf
Katie Crouch, Embassy Wife, FSG
Louis Edwards, Ramadan Ramsey, Amistad
Percival Everett, The Trees, Graywolf
Jonathan Evison, Legends of the North Cascades, Algonquin
Rivka Galchen, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch, FSG
Kaitlyn Greenidge, Libertie, Algonquin
Lauren Groff, Matrix, Riverhead
Joshua Henken, Morningside Heights, Pantheon
Caitlin Horrocks, Life among the Terranauts, Little, Brown
Jessica Francis Kane, Rules for Visiting, Penguin Press
Katie Kitamura, Intimacies, Riverhead
Alexandra Kleeman, Something New Under the Sun, Hogarth
Shelia Kohler, Open Secrets, Penguin
Jean Hanff Korelitz, The Plot; Celadon
Zachary Lazar: Vengeance, Catapult
Jonathan Lethem, The Arrest, Ecco
Atticus Lish, The War for Gloria, Knopf
Jason Mott, Hell of a Book, Dutton
Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Viking
Kathleen Rooney, Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey, Penguin
Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle, Knopf
Joan Silber, Secrets of Happiness, Counterpoint
Dana Spiotta, Wayward, Knopf
Brandon Taylor, Filthy Animals, Riverhead
Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears, FSG
Vendela Vida, We Run the Tides, Ecco
Bryan Washington, Memorial, Riverhead
Tiphanie Yanique, Monster in the Middle, Riverhead
For more information, please contact Diane Del Signore
510.919.0970 or diane@newliteraryproject.org