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 |