Announcing the Finalists for the 2024 Big Other Book Award for Fiction!

We’re excited to announce the finalists for the 2024 Big Other Book Award for Fiction. The winner will be announced at the 2024 Big Other Book Awards Ceremony, which will be aired virtually (date and time to be announced).

Without further ado, here are the finalists for the 2024 Big Other Book Award for Fiction:

Alisa Alering’s Smothermoss (Tin House)

Maureen Alsop’s Today Yesterday After My Death (Erratum Press)

Matthew Baker’s The Sentence (Dzanc Books)

Erin Brubacher’s These Songs I Know by Heart (Book*hug Press)

Vincent Czyz’s Sun Eye Moon Eye (Spuyten Duyvil)

Sergio de la Pava’s Every Arc Bends Its Radian (Simon & Schuster)

Steven Dunn and Katie Jean Shinkle’s Tannery Bay (FC2)

Mike Fu’s Masquerade (Tin House)

Amina Gautier’s The Best That You Can Do (Soft Skull Press)

Robert Kloss’s The Genocide House (Bridge Books)

Eric Lindley and Joe Milazzo’s Words in Danger of Falling Out of the Vocabulary (Galileo Press)

Norman Lock’s The Caricaturist (Bellevue Literary Press)

Ian S. Maloney’s South Brooklyn Exterminating (Spuyten Duyvil)

Poupeh Missaghi’s Sound Museum (Coffee House Press)

Anna Noyes’s The Blue Maiden (Grove Press)

Lance Olsen’s Absolute Away (Dzanc Books)

Nicolette Polek’s Bitter Water Opera (Graywolf Press)

James Reich’s Skinship (Anti-Oedipus Press)

Danzy Senna’s Colored Television (Riverhead Books)

Jacob Wren’s Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim (Book*hug Press)

(Image: Albert Oehlen’s Verweis (2006))

John Madera is the author of Nervosities (Anti-Oedipus Press, 2024) and Nomad Science (Spuyten Duyvil Press, forthcoming in 2026). His fiction is also published in Conjunctions, Salt Hill, Hobart, The &Now Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing, and many other journals. His poetry is also published in elimae, Sixth Finch, Contrapuntos, and elsewhere. His criticism is published in American Book Review, Bookforum, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Rain Taxi: Review of Books, The Believer, The Brooklyn Rail, and many other venues. Recipient of an M.F.A. in Literary Arts from Brown University, two-time New York State Council on the Arts awardee John Madera lives in New York City, where he runs Rhizomatic and manages and edits Big Other.

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