Women’s Prize for Fiction Shortlist

01 May Women’s Prize for Fiction Shortlist

Wednesday morning, the shortlist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction was announced. The Women’s Prize for Fiction, formerly known as the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, is awarded annually to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom in the preceding year. This year’s nominees were published in 2022. The shortlist is reflected below, with links to entries in the Evergreen Indiana catalog. Some of these titles are not yet widely available in the United States, so we’ll update this post as they become so. You can also find a list of previous winners of the prize here. The winner will be announced on Wednesday, June 14.

2023 Shortlist

• Fire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks

• Trespasses by Louise Kennedy

• Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

• Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris

• The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell

• Pod by Laline Paull

Previous Winners