2024 HarperCollins/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction Shortlist

Congratulations to the three shortlisted authors of the 2024 HarperCollins/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction 🎉 💙

🌲 Emily Cann with BRANCHES

🐓 A.W. Hopkins with A SPLENDID INDIAN

🌸 Nilofar Shidmehr with FORTY DAWNS OF THE PERSIAN SPRING

The winner, chosen by CookeMcDermid and the editorial team of HarperCollins, will be offered representation by CookeMcDermid and a standard contract to publish from HarperCollins. Paige Sisley, one of the CookeMcDermid jurors, says: “We believe that Cann’s, Hopkins’s and Shidmehr’s works are a strong representation of the kinds of stories readers are hungry for right now: engaged with the world around us, interrogating its horrors and the challenges we face, but also filled with human connection, heart and hope.” The winner of the prize will be announced September 27, 2024. You can read more about the prize and the shortlisted authors here.