Revealing the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist

**The full list in alphabetical order by author surname is:**

* ***Gloria Don’t Speak*** by Lucy Apps (Weatherglass Books)
* ***Paradiso 17*** by Hannah Lillith Assadi (4th Estate, HarperCollins Publishers UK)
* ***Moderation*** by Elaine Castillo (Atlantic Books)
* ***Flashlight*** by Susan Choi (Jonathan Cape, Vintage, Penguin Random House UK)
* ***Dominion*** by Addie E. Citchens (Europa Editions UK)
* ***The Benefactors*** by Wendy Erskine (Sceptre, Hodder & Stoughton, Hachette UK)
* ***The Correspondent*** by Virginia Evans (Michael Joseph, Penguin Random House UK)
* ***The Mercy Step*** by Marcia Hutchinson (Cassava Republic Press)
* ***The Others*** by Sheena Kalayil (Fly on the Wall Press)
* ***Kingfisher*** by Rozie Kelly (Saraband)
* ***Heart the Lover*** by Lily King (Canongate)
* ***Audition*** by Katie Kitamura (Fern Press, Vintage, Penguin Random House UK)
* ***A Guardian and a Thief*** by Megha Majumdar (Scribner, Simon & Schuster UK)
* ***Wild Dark Shore*** by Charlotte McConaghy (Canongate)
* ***The Best of Everything*** by Kit de Waal (Tinder Press, Headline Publishing Group, Hachette UK)
* ***A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing*** by Alice Evelyn Yang (Dead Ink)