Announcing the 2025 Granum Prize Longlist

October 21, 2025 — We are happy to announce the longlist for the 2025 Granum Foundation Prize.

The Granum Foundation Prize was established to help U.S.-based writers complete substantive literary works and to help launch these works. Funding is meant to provide a writer with the tools, time, and freedom to help ensure their success.

This year, our fifth, we received more than 1,300 applications, highlighting the number of talented writers from around the country and the extraordinary range of projects in development. The longlist represents roughly the top 5% of entries from all genres. It showcases writers of essay collections, short story collections, poetry, historical narratives, speculative fiction, literary fiction, memoirs, young adult fiction, graphic novels, and more.

The short list will be announced later this month, and the winner and finalists will be announced in November. A short list and winner for the Granum Foundation Translation Prize also will be announced soon. Applications for our next round of prizes are expected to open in May 2026.

Longlist: James Yeh, Naomi Xu Elegant, Olivia Wolfgang-Smith, Edwardson Ukata, Josie Tolin, Silas Thomson, Thao Thai, Swati Sudarsan, Darius Stewart, Beth Staples, Alyssa Songsiridej, Emma Sloley, Meg Shevenock, Mark Sarvas, Shuchi Saraswat, Shawna Rodenberg, Tanya Rey, Sharon Premoli, Brittany Perham, jj pena, Troy Osaki, José Olivarez, Hera Naguib, West Moss, Oak Morse, Julian Mendoza-Robles, Na Mee, Davis McCombs, Sarah Matsui, Francisco Marquez, Amy Lyons, Dan Leach, Arah Ko, Robert Kehlmann, Eliamani Ismail, Oluwabambi Ige, Pete Hsu, Richie Hofmann, Audrey Gradzewicz, Nadia Ghent, Maryam Ghafoor, Mag Gabbert, Dylan Fisher, Najee Fareed, Arwen Donahue, Lilia Dlaboha, Jake Deluca, Sahar Delijani, James Davis, Jesse Davila, Lydi Conklin, Aaron Caycedo-Kimura, DeeSoul Carson, Kate Carroll de Gutes, Tina Cane, Stephanie Brown, Clare Boyle, Amy Bonnaffons, Pritha Bhattacharyya, Summer Awad, Derrick Austin, Thomas Atkinson, Maria Alvarez, Andrew Altschul