The New York Public Library has revealed the finalists for the 2015 Young Lions Fiction Award. We’ve created another literary mixtape linking to free samples of all the nominated novels.
Here’s more from the press release: “The Young Lions Fiction Award is given annually to an American writer age 35 or younger for either a novel or collection of short stories. Each year, five young fiction writers are selected as finalists by a reading committee of Young Lions members, writers, editors, and librarians.”
The winner will be announced during a ceremony which will be held at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on April 27th. This year’s panel of judges include The Twelve Tribes of Hattie novelist Ayana Mathis, New Yorker staff writer Rebecca Mead, and Once the Shore: Stories author Paul Yoon.
15th Annual Young Lions Fiction Award Finalists
The UnAmericans by Molly Antopol
Silence Once Begun by Jesse Ball
Nobody is Ever Missing by Catherine Lacey
What Ends by Andrew Ladd
10:04 by Ben Lerner