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Today would be Carol Shields's 90th bday. I've loved THE STONE DIARIES a long time and when I found Penelope Fitzgerald's 1993 review of it while researching FONSECA, well, mind blown. I don't think they met, but I suspect they would've liked each other. @carolshieldsprize.bsky.social #shieldsprize

#LoveYourLibrary Meets the Women’s/Carol Shields Prizes For Fiction, April 2025 Miranda July, All Fours. I reluctantly picked this up because it is the only title this year shortlisted for both the Women’s and Carol Shields Prizes for Fiction, and expected to dislike it …

On the blog today: three books from the @womensprize.bsky.social /@carolshieldsprize.bsky.social longlists/shortlists drlauratisdall.wordpress.com/2025/04/28/l... #amreading #fiction #booksky #womensprize #shieldsprize #loveyourlibrary

Thoughts on the Women’s Prize and Carol Shields Prize Longlists, 2025 The two big US/Canadian and British women’s fiction prizes have just posted their longlists! (The Australia Stella Prize also announced its longlist on Tuesday.) I don’t intend to do a …

It's women's fiction prize longlist season... drlauratisdall.wordpress.com/2025/03/07/t... @womensprize.bsky.social @carolshieldsprize.bsky.social #womensprizeforfiction #shieldsprize #booksky

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Wow, I was so excited for this long list. But so much just, ugh. All Fours? Creation Lake? Taking a unique prize and making it so privileged white women, and in these times.

2025 #ShieldsPrize Longlist:
River East, River West by Aube Rey Lescure (William Morrow)
Masquerade by O.O. Sangoyomi (Forge)
Everything Flirts: Philosophical Romances by Sharon Wahl (University of Iowa Press)
(4/4)

2025 #ShieldsPrize Longlist:
Code Noir by Canisia Lubrin (Knopf Canada/Soft Skull Press)
Liars by Sarah Manguso (Hogarth)
Cicada Summer by Erica McKeen (W. W. Norton & Company)
Bear by Julia Phillips (Hogarth)
(3/4)

2025 #ShieldsPrize Longlist:
All Fours by Miranda July (Riverhead Books)
Obligations to the Wounded by Mubanga Kalimamukwento (University of Pittsburgh Press)
Naniki by Oonya Kempadoo (Rare Machines)
Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner (Scribner)
(2/4)

2025 #ShieldsPrize Longlist:
The Hearing Test by Eliza Barry Callahan (Catapult)
Kin: Practically True Stories by V Efua Prince (Made in Michigan Writers Series)
Curiosities by Anne Fleming (Knopf Canada)
Pale Shadows by Dominique Fortier, tr. Rhonda Mullins (Coach House)
(1/4)

The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction is proud to present our stellar 2025 Prize Jury panel: Diana Abu-Jaber — Jury Chair, Norma Dunning, Kim Fu, Tessa McWatt, and Jeanne Thornton.

Please join us in celebrating them! 🎉

For more: bit.ly/3CqYD9Z

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We thought that a fun way of sharing the results would be to turn them into a gift guide!

We hope this gives you lots of inspiration as you put together your 2025 TBR list, and as you finish your holiday shopping.

Can you spot any personal favorites? What other titles would you add? #ShieldsPrize

The Carol Shields Prize, 2024, and the Women’s Prize for Fiction, 2024: Dances, The Blue, Beautiful World & In Defence of the Act I'm belatedly trying to read a few more of the titles that appealed to me from the Women's Prize longlist before the shortlist announcement on 24th April, while finishing up my last Carol Shields Priz...

Today on the blog I review my final read from the Carol Shields Prize longlist plus two more from the Women's Prize for Fiction longlist. But which of these did I think deserved to be on prize lists? drlauratisdall.wordpress.com/2024/04/22/t... #amreading #fiction #womensprize #shieldsprize 💙📚

The Carol Shields Prize, 2024: Between Two Moons, & My Shortlist Wishlist! Aisha Abdel Gawad's debut novel, Between Two Moons, is set during Ramadan in the Arab-American Muslim community of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, which suffers under the weight of heavy surveillance, suspicion ...

The shortlist for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction will be announced tomorrow! I review a final novel from the longlist and think about what I'd like to see on the shortlist: drlauratisdall.wordpress.com/2024/04/08/t... #shieldsprize #amreading #fiction 💙📚

The Carol Shields Prize, 2024: A Council of Dolls Winona... survived the end of one world and is learning what it's like to live in another.  A small Dakhóta girl is growing up in Chicago in the late 1960s with her volatile mother Lillian and kind bu...

NEW BLOG POST! I review another of the books longlisted for the Carol Shields Prize - this time, a story of three generations of Yanktonai Dakhóta women told partly through the dolls they carried drlauratisdall.wordpress.com/2024/04/05/t... #amreading #fiction #shieldsprize 💙📚

The Carol Shields Prize, 2024: The Future Not to be confused with the other Future that came out recently. In an alternate future, Fort Détroit was never surrendered by the French. Gloria comes to the city after her daughter dies and her two ...

NEW BLOG POST! I review yet another hit from the Carol Shields Prize longlist, this time a novel set in an alternate, Francophone Detroit where children build their own kingdoms in the wild forest: drlauratisdall.wordpress.com/2024/03/27/t... #amreading #fiction #shieldsprize 💙📚

The Carol Shields Prize and the Women’s Prize for Fiction, 2024: Brotherless Night Sashi is a Tamil teenager in Jaffna, a Tamil town in northern Sri Lanka, in 1981, a few years after a range of Tamil separatist groups emerged to challenge persecution and discrimination by the Sinhal...

I review the only book longlisted for both the Women's Prize
for Fiction and the Carol Shields Prize! drlauratisdall.wordpress.com/2024/03/20/t... #womensprize #shieldsprize #amreading #fiction 💙📚

The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction Longlist, 2024 The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, which is now in its second year, is for fiction written by women or non-binary writers from Canada or the United States. It seems to have received relatively littl...

I'm loving the Carol Shields Prize longlist this year and here are my thoughts on the books I've read, and those I want to read: drlauratisdall.wordpress.com/2024/03/15/t... #shieldsprize #amreading #fiction