New Directions, Fitzcarraldo Editions, and Giramondo are pleased to announce that The Novel Prize, a biennial award for a book-length work of literary fiction written in English by published and unpublished writers around the world, will open for submissions from April 1, 2024 to June 1, 2024.

The Novel Prize is a biennial award for a book-length work of literary fiction written in English by published and unpublished writers around the world. It offers $10,000 to the winner and simultaneous publication in North America by New York-based New Directions, in the UK and Ireland by the London-based Fitzcarraldo Editions, and in Australia and New Zealand by the Sydney-based publisher Giramondo.

The prize rewards novels that explore and expand the possibilities of the form, and are innovative and imaginative in style. Jessica Au’s Cold Enough for Snow, the inaugural winner in 2020, was selected from close to 1,500 submissions worldwide, and was published in March 2022. Cold Enough for Snow has since been sold into over twenty territories, and was the recipient of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award in 2023. The shortlisted entries in 2020 were Glenn Diaz’s Yñiga, Emily Hall’s The Longcut, Christine Lai’s Landscapes, Nora Lange’s Us Fools, and Lani Yamamoto’s Ours and Others’.

Selected from the submissions of close to 1,000 writers, Anne de Marcken and Jonathan Buckley shared the 2022 Novel Prize for their novels It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over and Tell, both published in March 2024. The shortlisted titles for the 2022 Novel Prize are Darcie Dennigan’s Forever Valley, Marie Doezema’s Aurora Australis, Florina Enache’s Palimpsest, Vijay Khurana’s The Passenger Seat, Valer Popa’s Moon Over Bucharest and Sola Saar’s Anonymity Is Life.

The Novel Prize is managed by the three publishers working in collaboration, with New Directions reading submissions from the Americas, Fitzcarraldo Editions from Africa and Europe, Giramondo from Asia and Australasia.