Longlist for 2015 Award
| TITLE | AUTHOR | PUBLISHER |
| Half a Creature from the Sea | Almond, David (UK) | Walker |
| The Emerald Light in the Air | Antrim, Donald (USA) | Farrar, Straus, Giroux |
| Stone Mattress | Atwood, Margaret (Canada) | Bloomsbury |
| Refund | Bender, Karen E. (USA) | Counterpoint Press |
| Pond | Bennett, Claire-Louise (UK) | Stinging Fly |
| Truth Poker | Brazaitis, Mark (USA) | Autumn House Press |
| Staying Thin for Daddy | Brennan, Deirdre (Ireland) | Arlen House |
| The Brink | Bunn, Austin (USA) | Harper Perennial |
| The Missing Woman | Burns, Carole (UK) | Parthian |
| How You Were Born | Cayley, Kate (Canada) | Pedlar Press |
| Bitter Bronx | Charyn, Jerome (USA) | Liveright (Norton) |
| If I Knew You Were Going to be This Beautiful I Never Would Have Let you Go | Chicurel, Judy (USA | GP Putnam /Penguin |
| Probably Monsters | Cluley, Ray (UK/Australia) | ChiZine Publications |
| Man V Nature | Cook, Diane (USA) | Harper Collins |
| The Redemption of Galen Pike | Davies, Carys (UK) | Salt |
| The Chameleon House | de Villiers, Melissa (South Africa) | Modjaji |
| Mr Tall | Earley, Tony (USA) | Little Brown & Company |
| Life Here Below | Farrell, Michael J. (Ireland)) | New Island |
| We Will All Go Down Together | Files, Gemma (UK) | ChiZine Publications |
| Let me be Frank with You | Ford, Richard (USA) | Bloomsbury |
| Over Our Heads | Fox, Andrew (Ireland) | Penguin/ Random House |
| Clemency Browne Dreams of Gin | Foyle, Órfhlaith (Ireland) | Arlen House |
| Jellyfish | Galloway, Janice (UK) | Freight Books |
| Now We Will Be Happy | Gautier, Amina (USA) | University of Nebraska Press |
| A Fistful of Earth | Gigoo, Siddhartha (India) | Rupa Publications |
| The Need for Better Regulation of Outer Space | Goldschmidt, Pippa (UK) | Freight Books |
| White Tiger on Snow Mountain | Gordon, David (USA) | Little A / New Harvest |
| Gutshot | Gray, Amelia (USA) | Farrar, Straus, Giroux |
| Jebel Marra | Green, Michelle (UK/Canada) | Comma Press |
| Infidelities | Gunn, Kirsty (UK) | Faber and Faber |
| Speed Dreaming | Haroutunian, Nicole (USA) | Little A |
| Elegy on Kinderklavier | Hemenway, Arna Bontemps (USA) | Sarabande |
| Little Crackers | Higgins, Beda (UK) | Sarabande |
| The Way Out | Jarrett, Vicki (UK) | Freight Books |
| Away from the Dead | Jennings, Karen (South Africa) | Holland Park Press |
| Millie and Bird: Tales of Paradise | Joy, Avril (UK) | Iron Press |
| Coup de Foudre | Kalfus, Ken (USA) | Bloomsbury |
| Burrard Inlet | Keevil, Tyler (Canada) | Parthian |
| The Family Unit and Other Struggles | Klavan, Laurence (USA) | ChiZine Publications |
| Specimen | Kovalyova, Irina (Canada) | Anansi |
| City Beasts | Kurlansky, Mark (USA) | Riverhead Books |
| Sweet Nothing | Lange, Richard (USA) | Little Brown and Company |
| The Book of Names | Leville, Royce (Australia) | Ripple Books |
| Justine, Joe and the Zen Garbageman | Licht, Matthew (USA) | Salt |
| When You Find Us We Will be Gone | Linforth, Christopher (USA) | Lamar University Press |
| Get in Trouble | Link, Kelly (USA) | Canongate |
| Doll Palace | Lippmann, Sara (USA) | Dock Stree Press |
| Life-like | Litt, Toby (UK) | Seagull Books |
| The Dog | Livings, Jack (USA) | Farrar, Straus, Giroux |
| Deadly Confederacies and other stories | Malone, Martin (Ireland) | New Island |
| Elemental | Mantel, Tara (USA) | Livingston Press: The University of West Alabama |
| Gifts for the One Who Comes After | Marshall, Helen (Canada) | ChiZine Publications |
| Teresa’s Man and other stories from Goa | Mauzo, Damodar (India) | Rupa Publications |
| Crow Fair | McGuane, Thomas (USA) | Knopf |
| Angels and Exiles | Meynard, Yves (Canada) | ChiZine Publications |
| Passion Flower | Mistry, Cyrus (India) | Aleph |
| Viral Stories | Mitchell, Emily (USA) | Norton |
| the Alphabet of Birds | Naudé, SJ (South Africa) | And Other Stories |
| Knife Fight | Nickle, David (Canada) | ChiZine Publications |
| Daydreams of Angels | O’Neill, Heather (Canada) | HarperCollins |
| The Girl Missing from the Window | O’Reilly, Pau (Ireland)l | Doire |
| Here Be Nightmares | Oui, Julya (Malaysia) | Fixi Novo |
| Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley | Pancake, Ann (USA) | Counterpoint Press |
| For Love and Kisses | Pasion-Flores, Andrea (Philippines) | University of Santo Tomas Publishing House |
| Honeydew | Pearlman, Edith (USA) | Little Brown and Company / John Murray |
| Hall of Small Mammals | Pierce, Thomas (USA) | Riverhead Books |
| A Token of my Affliction | Plantana, Janette (Canada) | Tightrope |
| French Kisses | Poe, David R. (USA) | Serving House Books |
| Father Brother Keeper | Poole, Nathan (USA) | Sarabande |
| What I Want To Tell Goes Like This | Rader, Matt (Canada) | Nightwood Editions |
| Don’t Try This At Home | Readman, Angela (UK) | And Other Stories |
| Wallflowers | Robertson, Eliza (Canada) | Bloomsbury |
| I Am Currently Working on a Novel | Rolli (Canada) | Tightrope |
| Don’t Let Him Know | Roy, Sandip (India) | Bloomsbury |
| By the Book | Schoemperlen, Diane (USA) | Biblioasis |
| Leaving By Plane Swimming Back Underwater | Scott, Lawrence (Trinidad/UK) | Papillote Press |
| They Do the Same Things Different There | Shearman, Robert (UK) | ChiZine Publications |
| Chez L’Arabe | Silcoff, Mireille (Canada) | Anansi |
| Confidence | Smith, Russell (South Africa/Canada) | Biblioasis |
| Wrote For Luck | Taylor, Dj (UK) | Galley Beggar Press |
| You Turn Your Back | Tester, Royston (Canada) | Tightrope |
| Mr. Bones | Theroux, Paul (USA) | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Hot Little Hands | Ulman, Abigail (Australia) | Hamish Hamilton |
| Night at the Fiestas | Valdez Quade, Kirstin (USA) | Norton |
| 101 Detectives | Vladislavic, Ivan (Coatia/ South Africa) | And Other Stories |
| thorn | Williams, Evan Morgan (USA) | BkMk Press at University of Missouri-Kansas City |
| SecondHand Rain | Williams, Georgia Carys (UK) | Parthian |
| The Freedom in American Songs | Winter, Kathleen (UK) | Biblioasis |
| The Thing About Great White Sharks | Wright, Rebecca Adams (USA) | Little A |
| My Documents | Zambra, Alejandro (Chile) | Fitzcaraldo Editions |
