Daily News Item 2026-02-03 09:56

The PEN/Faulkner Foundation has announced the longlist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: Ghostroots (Norton) by ’Pemi Aguda, Behind You Is the Sea (Harpervia) by Susan Muaddi Darraj, The Mighty Red (Harper) by Louise Erdrich, James (Doubleday) by Percival Everett, Small Rain (FSG) by Garth Greenwell, Creation Lake (Scribner) by Rachel Kushner, There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven (Mariner) by Ruben Reyes Jr., Colored Television (Riverhead) by Danzy Senna, The History of Sound Viking) by Ben Shattuck, and Devil Is Fine (Celadon) by John Vercher. “In selecting the longlist, this year’s judges—Bruce Holsinger, Deesha Philyaw, and Luis Alberto Urrea—considered 414 eligible novels and short story collections by American authors published in the U.S. during the 2024 calendar year. Submissions came from 166 publishing houses, including small and academic presses. From this longlist, the judges will select five finalists for the 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Those finalists will be announced in early March.” The winner will be announced in April.