FICTION PRIZE SUMMER 2026

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Laureate

Look by Alan Sincic

Alan Sincic is a fiction writer and educator whose work has appeared widely in leading literary journals, with recent honours including the Futurist Debut Book Award and the Walter Cummins Award.

Shortlist

In You, An Ending, A Beginning by Joe Butler
The Little Man by Colleen Smith
Look by Alan Sincic
Psychostasia by Matt Hampton
大安森林公園 (Daan Forest Park): The Most Beautiful Scarf in the World
by Robert Black

Longlist

Who’s Counting? by Sally Pont
Broken Birds by Ares Wakamo
In You, An Ending, A Beginning by Joe Butler
Snow Angel by Brandon Fick
The Light Between Seconds by Tam Crowe
The Dragon’s Ashes by Melanie Grabowski
Psychostasia by Matt Hampton
The Little Man by Colleen Smith
大安森林公園 (Daan Forest Park): The Most Beautiful Scarf in the World
by Robert Black
Look by Alan Sincic
Gift by Saoirse Bertram
Tyto by Keniesha Nesbitt
A Numbers Game by Noah Phibbs