PEN/Hemingway Award Longlist, Current

Trip

Trip

2026 PEN/Hemingway Award LonglistAmie Barrodale’s stories and essays have appeared in The Paris Review, Harper’s Magazine, and other publications. In 2012 she was awarded The Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize for Fiction for her story “William Wei.” She is the author of...

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We Pretty Pieces of Flesh

We Pretty Pieces of Flesh

2026 PEN/Hemingway Award LonglistColwill Brown was born and raised in South Yorkshire, England, and is based in Austin, Texas, where she is an MFA candidate at the University of Texas at Austin, and Fiction Editor at Bat City Review. For the last decade, she has lived...

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The Correspondent

The Correspondent

2026 PEN/Hemingway Award LonglistVirginia Evans attended James Madison University for her bachelor’s in English literature. After starting a family, she went back to school for her master’s of philosophy in creative writing at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, where...

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The Devil Three Times

The Devil Three Times

2026 PEN/Hemingway Award LonglistRickey Fayne is a fiction writer from rural West Tennessee whose work has appeared in the New York Times, American Short Fiction, Guernica, The Sewanee Review, and The Kenyon Review, among other magazines. He holds an MA in English...

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Awake in the Floating City

Awake in the Floating City

2026 PEN/Hemingway Award LonglistSusanna Kwan is an artist and writer from San Francisco. Her work has been supported by fellowships from Kundiman, Storyknife, Oak Spring Garden Foundation, and Vanderbilt University. Awake in the Floating City is her first novel. She...

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North Sun

North Sun

2026 PEN/Hemingway Award LonglistEthan Rutherford’s fiction has appeared in BOMB, Tin House, Electric Literature, Ploughshares, One Story, American Short Fiction, Conjunctions, and The Best American Short Stories. He is the author of two story collections—Farthest...

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Blob

Blob

2026 PEN/Hemingway Award LonglistMaggie Su is a writer and editor. She received a PhD in fiction from University of Cincinnati and an MFA from Indiana University. Her work has appeared in New England Review, Four Way Review, TriQuarterly Review, Puerto del Sol, Juked,...

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Maggie; or, a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar

Maggie; or, a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar

2026 PEN/Hemingway Award LonglistKatie Yee is a writer from Brooklyn. She has received fellowships from the Center for Fiction, the Asian American Writers' Workshop, and Kundiman. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Review of Books,...

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