'Heart the Lover' by Lily King is an intimate and truthful novel that explores desire, friendship, loss and the life-long echoes of young love with the precision of poetry and the emotional tide of an epic.
Read our interview with Lily here: womensprize.com/in-conversat...
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In 'Kingfisher' debut Rozie Kelly finds beauty in the messiness of being human in her meditation on grief, power, desire, our search for identity, how we love and the consequences when we fall short. Read our interview to learn more: womensprize.com/in-conversat... @saraband-books.bsky.social
Set against the background of the fall of the Berlin Wall, ‘The Others’ by Sheena Kalayil follows the journey of three friends whose lives are bound together in a web of love, lies and fears, leaving each irrevocably changed. Learn more here: bit.ly/3NB5EKM
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Following the life of a child from the womb to age 11, in ‘The Mercy Step’ @mhut25.bsky.social crafts a sharply-witted and tender portrait of a young girl’s quiet rebellion in 1960s Bradford. Learn more via our interview by Marcia here: womensprize.com/in-conversat... @cassavarepublic.bsky.social
In ‘The Correspondent’ Virginia Evans showcases the power of the written word through a 73-year-old protagonist who uses letter-writing to make sense of the world around her, confronting the hubris of youth with the wisdom of old age. Learn more here: womensprize.com/in-conversat...
In ‘The Benefactors’ @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social presents a daring, polyphonic representation of modern-day Northern Ireland through the stories of three Belfast mothers, exploring class, money, and what it ultimately means to be a parent. Learn more here: womensprize.com/in-conversat...
In 'Dominion', Addie E. Citchens writes an incandescent debut that exalts the beauty and strength of Black womanhood whilst illuminating the pervasive sins of the patriarchy, and the bargains women strike to survive them. Read our interview with Addie here: womensprize.com/in-conversat...
An illuminating historical family saga, in ‘Flashlight’ by Susan Choi, a father’s disappearance one evening fractures forever the lives of a small family – and reverberates across generations and geographies. Read our interview with Susan to learn more: womensprize.com/in-conversat...
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Charli talks to Vick about finding confidence in your 30s, dating disasters, the therapeutic process of writing her new book, ‘Flesh’, alongside the five books by women that have shaped her.
#Bookshelfie is back – and joining Vick Hope for the first episode of the season is author, model, entrepreneur and women’s rights activist, Charli Howard.
Tackling questions around censorship and the age of AI, ‘Moderation’ by Elaine Castillo uses the lens of a real romance in the virtual workplace to explore the possible future of love in an increasingly online world with sharp cultural criticism and wit. Read our interview here: bit.ly/46SLNNP
Set across the globe from Palestine to Kuwait, Italy to New York and Arizona, in ‘Paradiso 17’ Hannah Lillith Assadi presents an intimate, sweeping tale about a man in exile’s restless search for home, navigating loss and life, grief and euphoria, regret and hope. Learn more here: bit.ly/3PpH3Jk
It’s time to learn more about the 16 titles on this year’s #WomensPrize for Fiction longlist, starting with Gloria Don’t Speak – Lucy Apps’ deeply empathetic portrait of a young woman with a learning disability, that deals with vulnerability, violence and the desire for connection: bit.ly/40oQZFo
What a joy to be included with such wonderful women! Thank you @womensprize.bsky.social
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We are so excited that Kingfisher by Rozie Kelly has been longlisted for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction.
Congratulations to Rozie and all the longlisted authors!
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The 2026 Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist is OUT!
Discover this incredible list and support indie bookshops: @womensprize.bsky.social
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A BEAST SLINKS TOWARDS BEIJING 🐇 is on the Longlist for the Women's Prize 2026!!
Massive congratulations to Alice Evelyn Yang for this absolute triumph. ABSTB is an astonishing debut novel and what an achievement to be longlisted alongside 16 other tremendous novels: womensprize.com/prizes/women...
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The Others by Sheena Kalayil is LONGLISTED for #WomensPrize2026!
A stunning novel about migration, love, and revolution www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk/product-page...
Congratulations to Charlotte McConaghy whose WILD DARK SHORE is longlisted for the @womensprize.bsky.social Women’s Prize for Fiction!
A spectacular eco-thriller traversing nature and human frailty – full of breathtaking twists, dizzying beauty and ferocious love, it's a novel not to be missed
Huge congratulations to Addie E. Citchens, author of DOMINION, and to all longlisted authors and their publishers! 🎉👏🎉
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The 2026 #WomensPrize for Fiction longlist💚
Which book will you be reading first?
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With thanks to Audible and Baileys and our 2026 judges: Julia Gillard, @monaarshiwrites.bsky.social, Salma El-Wardany, Cariad Lloyd and Annie Macmanus.
Congratulations to Lucy Apps, Hannah Lillith Assadi, Elaine Castillo, Susan Choi, Addie E. Citchens, Wendy Erskine, Virginia Evans, @mhut25.bsky.social, Sheena Kalayil, Rozie Kelly, @lilyking.bsky.social, Katie Kitamura, Megha Majumdar, Charlotte McConaghy, @kitdewaal.com, Alice Evelyn Yang.
We are thrilled to reveal the 2026 #WomensPrize for Fiction longlist. 16 titles that showcase the profound force, resonance and scale of fiction writing: from tackling turbulent global issues to examining the intensely intimate. Discover the longlist here: youtu.be/fyPfDaHddLg
Two days to go…
The 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist will be revealed at 2pm GMT this Wednesday 4 March.
Will we be seeing you there?
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There’s not long to go until we reveal the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist at 2pm GMT this Wednesday 4 March.
Which books do you hope to see on the list? 👀
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