Ben Fountain Wins 2024 Joyce Carol Oates Prize
Ben Fountain is the winner of this year's Joyce Carol Oates Prize, a $50,000 award for mid-career authors of fiction presented by the New Literary Project.
Fountain is best known as the author of the 2012 novel Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk; his most recent novel, published last year by Flatiron, is Devil Makes Three.
He was also a finalist for the prize in 2018. As the winner, he will take up brief residence at the University of California, Berkeley (the marquee partner of the New Literary Project), and in California's Bay Area, including Saint Mary’s College of California—teaching and public speaking—in late October, dates to be determined.
"“Honored, elated, grateful, I’m feeling all of these emotions on being awarded the 2024 Joyce Carol Oates Prize," said Fountain in a statement, "in addition to keen anticipation at the prospect of engaging this fall with the extraordinary community of writers, teachers, and readers that New Literary Project has created since its founding in 2015."
