Carnegie Medal for Writing 2025 Longlist

The 2025 Carnegie Medal for Writing longlist is (alphabetical by author surname):

• On Silver Tides by Sylvia Bishop (Andersen Press)
• You Could Be So Pretty by Holly Bourne (Usborne)
• I Am Wolf by Alastair Chisholm (Nosy Crow)
• Treacle Town by Brian Conaghan (Andersen Press)
• Sisters of the Moon by Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick (Faber & Faber)
• The Things We Leave Behind by Clare Furniss (Simon & Schuster)
• The Final Year by Matt Goodfellow, illustrated by Joe Todd-Stanton (Otter-Barry Books)
• Island of Whispers by Frances Hardinge, illustrated by Emily Gravett (Macmillan Children’s)
• If My Words Had Wings by Danielle Jawando (Simon & Schuster)
• King of Nothing by Nathanael Lessore (Bonnier Books UK)
• Little Bang by Kelly McCaughrain (Walker)
• Glasgow Boys by Margaret McDonald (Faber & Faber)
• Trigger by C.G. Moore (Little Island Books)
• All That It Ever Meant by Blessing Musariri (Head of Zeus)
• Play by Luke Palmer (Firefly Press)
• Fallout by Lesley Parr (Bloomsbury Publishing)
• The Wrong Shoes by Tom Percival (Simon & Schuster)
• Louder Than Hunger by John Schu (Walker)
• Us in the Before and After by Jenny Valentine (Simon & Schuster)