André Alexis has won the 2025 Story Prize.

André Alexis has won the 2025 Story Prize, an annual award for short fiction, for his collection Other Worlds (FSG Originals).

Other Worlds was selected from the Story Prize shortlist (which also included Lydia Millet’s Atavists and Ayşegül Savaş’s Long Distance) by a judging panel consisting of Benjamin Dreyer, Ling Ma, and librarian Stephen Sposato.

“Other Worlds so seamlessly traverses the boundaries of time, of nationality, and of genre that such boundaries seem diaphanous,” noted the judges. “This fleet-footed collection is both rooted in oral and literary traditions and yet entirely contemporary. Being many things at once, full of sly innovations, and quietly upending conventions, Other Worlds is wholly original and wholly itself.”

Alexis will receive a $20,000 prize; Millet and Savaş will each take home $5,000.