The Rathbones Folio Prize 2023 Shortlists

Non-Fiction

The Passengers by Will Ashon

In Love by Amy Bloom

The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland

Constructing a Nervous System by Margo Jefferson

The Social Distance Between Us by Darren McGarvey

Fiction

Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo

Scary Monsters by Michelle de Kretser

Pure Colour by Sheila Heti

Emergency by Daisy Hildyard

Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout

Poetry

Quiet by Victoria Adukwei Bulley

Ephemeron by Fiona Benson

Cane, Corn & Gully by Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa

England’s Green by Zaffar Kunial

Manorism by Yomi Ṣode