Winner of the 2025 Autumn House Fiction Prize
Autumn House is excited to announce the winner of our 2025 Fiction Prize: Objects of Desire by Adam Price, selected by Alexandra Kleeman! The collection will be published in October 2026.
Adam O’Fallon Price is the author of two novels, The Grand Tour (Doubleday 2016) and The Hotel Neversink (Tin House Books 2019)—winner of the 2020 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original. His short fiction has appeared in Harper’s, The Paris Review, Granta, VICE, the Kenyon Review, the Iowa Review, EPOCH, and many other places. He lives in Carrboro, NC, and teaches fiction writing at the University of North Carolina.
We’d also like to congratulate the runner-up, finalists, and semi-finalists for their incredible manuscripts and thank everyone who submitted and trusted us with their manuscripts.
Thanks also to the judge, Alexandra, for all her hard work.
RUNNER-UP
Dreams of My Dead Husband by Jennifer Wortman
FINALISTS
Crestfallen Around Noon by Ea Anderson*
The Errand by Paul Bergstraesser
Mother’s Milk & Other Stories by Alexa Dodd
Los Perdidos by Afsheen Farhadi
A Natural History by Brooke Sahni
SEMIFINALISTS
The Apology Album by Scott Ditzler
The End of Conversation by Samar Fitzgerald
This Will Be Yours When I Die by Sara Maria Greene
Ways of Light by Katey Schultz
A Bed Filled With Birds by Faith Shearin
There Was a Crooked Man by Eugene Stein
The Drawing of Angels by Judith Turner-Yamamoto
Braille Lessons for Very Tall Children by Zachary Vickers
River in the House by Tracy Winn
The View from Swann House by Theodora Ziolkowski
*indicates a manuscript that was withdrawn before the winner was selected
