Year-End Lists

The Center for Fiction: 2025 First Novel Prize

Winner

• Natch
  Darrell Kinsey

Shortlist

• We Pretty Pieces of Flesh
  Colwill Brown
• The Devil Three Times
  Rickey Fayne
• Ibis
  Justin Haynes
• Loca
  Alejandro Heredia
• Liquid

  A Love Story
  Mariam Rahmani
• Optional Practical Training
  Shubha Sunder

Longlist

• Good Girl
  Aria Aber
• Crown
  Evanthia Bromiley
• Dominion
  Addie E. Citchens
• Pan
  Michael Clune
• Songs of No Provenance
  Lydi Conklin
• The Catch
  Yrsa Daley-Ward
• This Is the Only Kingdom
  Jaquira Díaz
• The Correspondent
  Virginia Evans
• If the Dead Belong Here
  Carson Faust
• Sky Daddy
  Kate Folk
• Circular Motion
  Alex Foster
• Great Black Hope
  Rob Franklin
• Mayra
  Nicky Gonzalez
• The Snares
  Rav Grewal-Kök
• The Fantasies of Future Things
  Doug Jones
• Sleep
  Honor Jones
• Awake in the Floating City
  Susanna Kwan
• Behind the Waterline
  Kionna Walker LeMalle
• Florenzer
  Phil Melanson
• Work Nights
  Erica Peplin
• North Sun

  Or, The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther
  Ethan Rutherford
• Woodworking
  Emily St. James