JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE 2023 LONGLIST ANNOUNCED BY NEW LITERARY PROJECT
OAKLAND, CA, December 7, 2022—Thirty-two Longlisted Authors for the 2023 Joyce Carol Oates Prize by New Literary Project were announced today. The $50,000 prize annually honors a mid-career author of fiction in the midst of a burgeoning career. The not-for-profit New Literary Project collaborates with the University of California, Berkeley, English Department, and Longlist authors were selected from official submissions by publishers, agents, authors, and author representatives. The 2023 Prize will be the seventh such yearly award by New Literary Project.
Finalists are expected to be named in March 2023, with the Recipient expected to be named in April 2023. Recipients and Finalists may participate in virtual or non-virtual events. The winner will be in brief residence at Cal and in the Bay Area at a time to be determined in 2023.
2023 JCO Prize Longlisted Authors & Most Recent Book of Fiction
Rabih Alameddine, The Wrong End of the Telescope (Grove Atlantic)
Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Woman of Light (One World)
Elif Batuman, EITHER/OR (Penguin Press)
Louis Bayard, Jackie & Me (Algonquin)
Clare Beams, The Illness Lesson (Doubleday)
Megan Mayhew Bergman, How Strange A Season (Scribner)
Francesca Lia Block, House of Hearts (Rare Bird)
Maud Casey, City of Incurable Women (Bellevue)
Myriam J. A. Chancy, What Storm, What Thunder (Tin House)
Lan Samantha Chang, The Family Chao (Norton)
Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water (Flatiron)
Alice Elliot Dark, Fellowship Point (Scribner)
Stacey D’Erasmo, The Complicities (Algonquin)
Hernan Diaz, Trust (Riverhead)
Jonathan Evison, Small World: A Novel (Dutton)
Kim Fu, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century (Tin House)
Francisco Goldman, Monkey Boy (Grove Atlantic)
Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man (Riverhead)
James Hannaham, Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta (Little, Brown)
Annie Hartnett, Unlikely Animals (Ballantine)
Vanessa Hua, Forbidden City (Ballantine)
Lily King, Five Tuesdays in Winter (Grove Atlantic)
Lucy Ives, Life Is Everywhere (Graywolf)
Adam Langer, Cyclorama: A Novel (Bloomsbury)
Zachary Lazar, The Apartment on Calle Uruguay (Catapult)
David Means, Two Nurses, Smoking (FSG)
Manuel Muñoz, The Consequences (Graywolf)
Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts (Penguin Press)
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, On the Rooftop (Ecco)
Gary Shteyngart, Our Country Friends (Random House)
Namwali Serpell, The Furrows (Hogarth)
Lynn Steger Strong, Flight (Mariner)
Based in Oakland, CA, NewLit was created as a public benefit nonprofit in 2016 to inspire and equip writers across the generations—in the words of Joyce Carol Oates—to “write their hearts out.” Through a variety of innovative initiatives, including the Prize–and supported by individual donors, foundations, and altruistic community leaders and businesses–the organization drives social change by unleashing artistic power across generations. NewLit 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.
Jack Hazard Fellowships of $5,000 each in the summer to creative writers who are high school educators anywhere in the nation, to celebrate them and to afford them freedom to write. Ten to twelve Jack Hazard Fellows are expected to be named in Spring 2023.
Simpsonistas: Tales from New Literary Project Vol. 4, the annual anthology of Project-related authors curated by NewLit and published by Rare Bird Books, recently appeared and is nationally distributed.
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); Lauren Groff, author of Matrix (Riverhead) (2022).
Jurors for the 2023 JCO Prize are Laura Cogan, Mark Danner, Joseph Di Prisco, Donna Jones, and David Wood. The jury hands up a shortlist of Finalists and the Board of Directors determines the Prize Recipient.
For more information, please contact:
Diane Del Signore, Executive Director, (510) 919-0970
diane@newliteraryproject.org
