Year-End Lists

The Center for Fiction: 2023 First Novel Prize

Winner

• We Are a Haunting
  Tyriek White

Shortlist

• Family Lore
  Elizabeth Acevedo
• Lookout
  Christine Byl
• Pay As You Go
  Eskor David Johnson
• Moonrise Over New Jessup
  Jamila Minnicks
• Night Wherever We Go

  A Gripping Debut Historical Novel of African American Women in Civil War Texas
  Tracey Rose Peyton
• Y/N
  Esther Yi

Longlist

• A Likely Story
  Leigh McMullan Abramson
• Chain-Gang All-Stars
  Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
• Under the Tamarind Tree
  Nigar Alam
• An Autobiography of Skin
  Lakiesha Carr
• The Survivalists
  Kashana Cauley
• Sea Change
  Gina Chung
• Coleman Hill
  Kim Coleman Foote
• The Kudzu Queen
  Mimi Herman
• Our Best Intentions
  Vibhuti Jain
• Red Clay Suzie
  Jeffrey Dale Lofton
• The Militia House
  John Milas
• What Napoleon Could Not Do
  DK Nnuro
• The Ocean Above Me
  Kevin Sites
• Salthouse Place
  Jamie Lee Sogn
• Banyan Moon
  Thao Thai
• Hush Harbor
  Anise Vance
• In Memoriam
  Alice Winn
• Glassworks
  Olivia Wolfgang-Smith