A longlist of 31 has been announced for the 2024 Joyce Carol Oates Prize, sponsored by the New Literary Project and honoring "a mid-career author of fiction in the midst of a burgeoning career, a distinguished writer who has emerged and is still emerging." The award has a $50,000 prize, and the winner spends a brief residence at the University of California, Berkeley, and in the Bay Area, where they may give public readings and talks, teach classes, and make appearances. Finalists will be named in March 2024, and the winner in April. To see the longlist, click here.
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The longlist has been announced for the £4,000 (about $5,080) 2024 Wingate Literary Prize, which honors "the best book, fiction or non-fiction, to translate the idea of Jewishness to the general reader." The shortlist will be announced in late January and the winner in late February. The 13 longlisted titles can be seen here.