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Announcing the shortlist for the 2026 Emerging Writer Prize


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  Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize  
 
 
Discover the most deserving debuts
 
  See our nominees for the best in Nonfiction, Literary Fiction, and Speculative Fiction  
 
 
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Nonfiction
 
Judged by Kate Harris, author of
Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road
 
 
 
Till We Meet Again by Brandon Marriott
 
Story of Your Mother by Chantal Braganza
 
The Lobster Trap by Greg Mercer
 
 
 
The Finest Hotel in Kabul by Lyse Doucet
 
The Work of Our Hands by Adrian Sutherland
 
Arctic Predator by Kathleen Lippa
 
 
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Literary Fiction
 
  Judged by Souvankham Thammavongsa, author of How to Pronounce Knife  
 
 
 
The Pugilist and the Sailor by Nadia Ragbar
 
Julie Chan Is Dead by Liann Zhang
 
Palm Meridian by Grace Flahive
 
 
 
The Sapling by Marc Bendavid
 
Still by Joanna Cockerline
 
Favourite Daughter by Morgan Dick
 
 
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Speculative Fiction
 
  Judged by Natalie Zina Walschots,
author of Hench
 
 
 
 
A Seal of Salvage by Clayton B. Smith
 
We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer
 
These Memories Do Not Belong to Us by Yiming Ma
 
 
 
How It Works Out by Myriam Lacroix
 
The Cure for Drowning by Loghan Paylor
 
Hollow Bamboo by William Seto Ping
 
 
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