The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction is online here.
2026 Judges: Carmen Maria Machado (Jury Chair), Ivan Coyote, Cherie Dimaline, Chitra Divakaruni, and Deesha Philyaw
2025 Judges: Diana Abu-Jaber (Jury Chair), Norma Dunning, Kim Fu, Tessa McWatt, and Jeanne Thornton.
Winner: Canisia Lubrin’s Code Noir
Shortlisted:
✔Dominique Fortier’s Pale Shadows (Trans. Rhonda Mullins)
Miranda July’s All Fours
Sarah Manguso’s Liars
Aube Rey Lescure’s River East, River West
Longlisted:
Eliza Barry Callahan’s The Hearing Test
V. Efua Prince’s Kin: Practically True Stories
Anne Fleming’s Curiosities
Mubanga Kalimamukwento’s Obligations to the Wounded
✔Oonya Kempadoo’s Naniki
Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake
Erica McKeen’s Cicada Summer
Julia Phillips’ Bear
O.O. Sangoyomi’s Masquerade
Sarah Whal’s Everything Flirts: Philosophical Romances
2024 Judges: Laila Lailami, Jen Sookfong Lee, Claire Messud, Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Eden Robinson
Winner: ✔V.V. Ganeshananthan’s Brotherless Night
✔Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood
✔Claudia Day’s Daughter
✔Kim Coleman Foote’s Coleman Hill
✔Janike Oza’s A History of Burning
Longlisted:
✔Lisa Alward’s Cocktail
✔Nicole Cuffy’s Dances
Aisha Abdel Gawad’s Between Two Moons
Tania James’ Loot
Juliana Lamy’s You Were Watching from the Sand
✔Catherine Leroux’s The Future (Trans. Susan Ouriou)
Rebecca Makkai’s I Have Some Questions for You
✔Mona Susan Power’s A Council of Dolls
✔Anuja Varghese’s Chrysalis
✔C. Pam Zhang’s Land of Milk and Honey
2023 Judges: Anita Rau Badami, Merilyn Simonds, Monique Truong, katherena vermette, and Crystal Wilkinson
Winner: ✔Fatimah Asghar’s When We Were Sisters
Shortllisted:
✔Daphne Palasi Andreades’ Brown Girls
✔Talia Lakshmi Kolluri’s What We Fed to the Manticore
✔Suzette Mayr’s The Sleeping Car Porter
✔Alexis Schaitkin’s Elsewhere
Longlisted:
✔Andrea Barrett’s Natural History: Stories
Lisa Hsiao Chen’s Activities of Daily Living
✔Francine Cunningham’s God Isn’t Here Today
✔Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s Woman of Light
Liana Finck’s Let There Be Light
✔Emma Hooper’s We Should Not Be Afraid of the Sky
Gish Jen’s Thank You, Mr. Nixon
Chelene Knight’s Junie
✔Tsering Yangzom Lama’s We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies
✔Namwali Serpell’s The Furrows: A Novel