Awards: Gordon Burn Longlist

The longlist has been selected for the 2025 Gordon Burn Prize, recognizing "exceptional writing which has an unconventional perspective, style or subject matter and often defies easy categorization. It celebrates literary outliers and daring and experimental work that often speaks to broader societal issues." 

The winning author receives  £10,000 (about $12,690) and the chance to undertake a writing retreat at Gordon Burn’s cottage in Berwickshire in England. The shortlist will be announced in January and a winner named March 6. The longlisted titles are:

Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel 
Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other by Danielle Dutton 
The Strangers: Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them by Ekow Eshun 
Ootlin by Jenni Fagan 
Mrs. Jekyll by Emma Glass 
I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning by Keiran Goddard 
White Terror: A True Story of Murder, Bombings and Germany's Far Right by Jacob Kushner 
Poor Artists by Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad
Only Here, Only Now by Tom Newlands 
The Lasting Harm: Witnessing the Trial of Ghislaine Maxwell by Lucia Osborne-Crowley 
England Is Mine by Nicolas Padamsee 
The Horse by Willy Vlautin 

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