Dzanc Prize for Fiction Short- and Longlist Honorees

It’s been our immense pleasure to read such talented entries this year, and we had a deeply difficult time choosing between them. Below are our short- and longlist honorees.

Prize for Fiction Shortlist

Woolf, Creature, Wave by Rachael Fowler

Moss House by Hollen Singleton

The Ephemerals by Karen Brown

Sea Risen Low by Katherine Cart

The Time Loop: A Memoir: A Novel by Molly Gaudry

What Became Its Body by Brenna Lee

Blitz Rats by Chris Vaughan

Longlist

Mantinea by Daniel McDermott

Wild Woman by Allison Amend

Coming to Scratch by Mark McClure

Winter in Mind by David Mastrodonato

Taiga by Andrew Mayeshiba

Homebound by Hannah Ford

Break My Heart, Liverpool by Pamela McGarry

Kid by Harrison Dietzman

Countermelodies by Rachel Taube

A Body of Water by Candy Neubert

Portraits of a Sunset by James West

The Translator by Jennifer Lee

Age of Blossoms by Cynthia Gralla

Dr. Bopstein and the US Dept of Dreaming by Joseph Skibell

The Language of the Locusts by Brad Modlin

The Schottky Defect by Farzad Ali

Belvedere by John Irwin

IDK by Kristina Jipson

Break Build Repeat by Deirdra McAfee

A Few Tricks I Can Do with a Matchbox by Liam Keller