Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist 2023 - Our Picks

8 Mar

The Longlist

Featuring nb. picks

In case you missed it, here it is, this year’s Women Prize for Fiction longlist!

Established in 1996 to celebrate and promote fiction by women, the Women’s Prize for Fiction – the most prominent celebration of female authors – is awarded annually for the best novel of the year written by a woman and published in the UK. Its aim is to shine a spotlight on outstanding, ambitious, original fiction written by women from anywhere in the world, and the 2023 longlist certainly does just that.

Featuring debut and bestselling writers, authors from all over the globe – including Britain, America, Ireland, Canada, Zimbabwe, and France – and stories with equally as far-reaching locations, from Renaissance Italy to rural India, this year’s longlist is as diverse as it is brilliantly curated.

Here at nb. magazine, we’re delighted to have spotlighted eight of the longlisted titles through book reviews or author interviews – with four of them having been featured in this very issue. We hope you’ve enjoyed reading our features on this coveted longlist, and we’ll continue to share our thoughts and insights as the prize progresses.

Issue 115, Resolution

Featuring priscilla Morris, Cecile Pin, and elizabeth Mckenzie

We were beyond thrilled to see so many of the authors we spoke to in our Spring Issue, Resolution, on the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2023 longlist! From our guest editor Priscilla Morris, author of the deeply moving and resilient Black Butterflies, to Cecile Pin, debut novelist of the personal and heartfelt refugee narrative Wandering Souls, to Elizabeth McKenzie, who penned our hilarious and witty March Book Group pick - The Dog of the North.

We also indulged in thought-provoking conversation with one of this year’s judges and fellow author - Rachel Joyce - on the process of finding ‘books that sing’. Catch the conversation in our new issue!