Joyce Carol Oates Prize: 2022 Finalists
We are pleased to announce the Finalists for the 2022 Joyce Carol Oates Prize, offered by New Literary Project. The Prize has been awarded annually since 2017. The Prize Recipient will receive $50,000. The recipient will give readings and make appearances in the Bay Area in October 2022, during a week-long residency with the University of California, Berkeley, English Department and appear at other venues in the Bay Area. The finalists may contribute work to Simpsonistas, the yearly anthology featuring distinguished authors, Simpson Fellows, Project-related writers, and students from the Simpson Workshops publishing for the first time.
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Christopher Beha
Christopher Beha is the author of a memoir, The Whole Five Feet, and the novels Arts & Entertainments and What Happened to Sophie Wilder. His latest novel, The Index of Self-Destructive Acts, was nominated for the 2020 National Book Award. He is the editor of Harper’s Magazine.
Christopher Beha in conversation with Bill James, on The Index of Self-Destructive Acts.
Christopher Beha in discussion with Emily Nemens at Politics and Prose.
Percival Everett
Percival Everett is author to more than thirty books, including Telephone, So Much Blue, Assumption, and Erasure. He has received Guggenheim and Creative Capital fellowships, and lives in Los Angeles.
Percival Everett discusses The Trees on Tin House’s podcast, Between the Covers with David Naimon.
Percival Everett reads for the Kestnbaum Writer-in-Residence Series at the University of Chicago.
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Lauren Groff
Lauren Groff is the author of six books of fiction, the most recent the novel MATRIX (September 2021). Her work has won The Story Prize, the ABA Indies’ Choice Award, and France’s Grand Prix de l’Héroïne, was a three time finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction and twice for the Kirkus Prize, and was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Prize, the Southern Book Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Prize. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and was named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages. She lives in Gainesville, Florida.
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Katie Kitamura
Katie Kitamura’s most recent novel is Intimacies. One of The New York Times’ 10 Best Books of 2021 and one of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2021, it was longlisted for the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Her third novel, A Separation, was a finalist for the Premio von Rezzori and a New York Times Notable Book. She is also the author of Gone To The Forest and The Longshot, both finalists for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award.
Her work has been translated into twenty-one languages and is being adapted for film and television. A recipient of fellowships from the Lannan, Santa Maddalena, and Jan Michalski Foundations, Katie has written for publications including The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times, The Guardian, Granta, BOMB, Triple Canopy, and Frieze. She teaches in the creative writing program at New York University.
Katie Kitamura and Raven Lelani discuss Intimacies at Greenlight Bookstore.
Kaite Kitamura and Rivka Galchen discuss Intimacies at Point Reyes Books.
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Jason Mott
Bestselling author, National Book Award Winner, Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction Winner, Pushcart Prize nominee, NAACP Image Award nominee, and Carnegie Medals For Excellence Longlist nominee, Jason Mott has a BFA in Fiction and an MFA in Poetry, both from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. His poetry and fiction has appeared in various literary journals. Jason’s fourth novel, Hell Of A Book, released in June 2021, was a Jenna Bush Hager “Read With Jenna” Book Club pick, Carnegie Medals For Excellence in Fiction Longlist selection, a 2022 Aspen Words Literary Prize Longlist selection, a Joyce Carol Oates Prize Longlist selection, the 2021 Sir Walter Raleigh Prize for Fiction winner, and the winner of the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction.
Jason Mott interviewed on NBC’s TODAY on Hell Of A Book.
Jason Mott featured on NBC’s Saturday Morning on the success of Hell Of A Book.
