The shortlist for this year’s Dylan Thomas Prize was announced this week.
Comprising four novels and two poetry collections, the shortlist is:
– To Rest Our Minds and Bodies by Harriet Armstrong (Les Fugitives) – novel (UK)
– We Pretty Pieces of Flesh by Colwill Brown (Chatto & Windus, Vintage) – novel (UK)
– Joy is My Middle Name by Sasha Debevec-McKenney (Fitzcarraldo Editions) – poetry (US)
– Under the Blue by Suzannah V. Evans (Bloomsbury Poetry) – poetry (UK)
– Open, Heaven by Seán Hewitt (Jonathan Cape, Vintage) – novel (UK)
– Borderline Fiction by Derek Owusu (Canongate) – novel (UK)
Irenosen Okojie MBE, Chair of Judges, said: “This is a marvellous, galvanising shortlist. We’re thrilled by the scope, breadth and depth of these works across forms. These books have profound things to say about the ways we live, what it means to be human and overall are propulsive reads that imbue the writing space with new energies.”
The winner will be announced on the 14th May 2026 in Swansea.
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