Here’s the longlist for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction.

Today, the Women’s Prize Trust announced the longlist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, which highlights sixteen novels—including seven debuts, seven American writers, and nine offerings from indie publishers—published in the last year.

“Across a longlist that is international in both scope and setting, these sixteen books masterfully demonstrate the power of fiction to examine the messy business of being human,” said Julia Gillard, Chair of Judges, in a statement. “From climate change to artificial intelligence, they navigate the issues of our time with urgency and purpose, they immerse us in environments and experiences that are sometimes like our own, but more often are radically different, and they explore identities and perspectives that are often ignored or forgotten, amidst those inherently universal and recognizable.”

Here’s the longlist:

Lucy Apps, Gloria Don’t Speak
Hannah Lillith Assadi, Paradiso 17
Elaine Castillo, Moderation
Susan Choi, Flashlight
Addie E. Citchens, Dominion
Wendy Erskine, The Benefactors
Virginia Evans, The Correspondent
Marcia Hutchinson, The Mercy Step
Sheena Kalayil, The Others
Rozie Kelly, Kingfisher
Lily King, Heart the Lover
Katie Kitamura, Audition
Megha Majumdar, A Guardian and a Thief
Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore
Kit de Waal, The Best of Everything 
Alice Evelyn Yang, A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing

The shortlist will be released on April 22, and the winner will be announced in June. The winner will receive £30,000, anonymously endowed, along with a statuette known as the ‘Bessie’, created and donated by the late artist Grizel Niven.