The 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist has been announced and we are thrilled to share the news that Crooked Seeds by Karen Jennings is among the sixteen nominated titles.

The full list in alphabetical order by author surname is:

  • Good Girl by Aria Aber (published by Bloomsbury Publishing)
  • The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley (published by Sceptre, Hodder & Stoughton, Hachette)
  • Somewhere Else by Jenni Daiches (published by Scotland Street Press)
  • Amma by Saraid de Silva (published by Weatherglass Books)
  • Crooked Seeds by Karen Jennings (published by Holland House Books)
  • All Fours by Miranda July (published by Canongate Books)
  • The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami (published by Bloomsbury Circus, Bloomsbury Publishing)
  • The Persians by Sanam Mahloudji (published by 4th Estate, HarperCollins)
  • Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (published by 4th Estate, HarperCollins)
  • Nesting by Roisín O’Donnell (published by Scribner, Simon & Schuster)
  • A Little Trickerie by Rosanna Pike (published by Fig Tree, Penguin General, Penguin Random House)
  • Birding by Rose Ruane (published by Corsair, Little, Brown Book Group, Hachette)
  • The Artist by Lucy Steeds (published by John Murray, John Murray Press, Hachette)
  • Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout (published by Viking, Penguin General, Penguin Random House)
  • The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden (published by Viking, Penguin General, Penguin Random House)
  • Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis (published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Orion Publishing Group, Hachette)

Congratulations, Karen and all other longlisted authors!

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