Announcing the 2018 Award for Fiction finalists:

Hernan Diaz for In the Distance (Coffee House Press)

Samantha Hunt for The Dark Dark (FSG Originals)

Achy Obejas for The Tower of the Antilles (Akashic Books)

Joan Silber for Improvement (Counterpoint)

Jesmyn Ward for Sing, Unburied, Sing (Scribner)

Read more about the finalists here. Purchase tickets for the 38th Award for Fiction Ceremony here.