Debut novels dominate the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction longlist

The longlist for the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction has been released.

Last year's longlist seemed noteworthy for containing five debut novels; this year, though, nine of the sixteen contenders are first-time novels.

These newcomers face two previous Women's Prize winners in Maggie O'Farrell and Barbara Kingsolver.

Any woman writing in English is eligible for the £30,000 (about $35,300) prize, inspired by a year in which no women were shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

The Women's Prize shortlist will come out April 26, with the winner being announced June 14.

Here are the longlisted books. 

• Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo 

• Homesick by Jennifer Croft 

• Fire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks

• Children of Paradise by Camilla Grudova

• Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes 

• Trespasses by Louise Kennedy 

• Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver 

• Cursed Bread by Sophie Mackintosh 

• The Dog of the North by Elizabeth McKenzie 

• Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris 

• The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell 

• I'm a Fan by Sheena Patel 

• Pod by Laline Paull 

• Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin

• The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff 

• Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow 

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