Good Housekeeping and the Women’s Prize for Fiction have announced the shortlist for Futures, which aims to highlight the next generation of female authors. Coinciding with Good Housekeeping’s centenary, the initiative was open to women writers aged 35 and under, living in the UK or Republic of Ireland, who have published at least one novel. 

The shortlist is:

• Jessica Andrews for ‘Saltwater’
• Natasha Brown for ‘Assembly’
• Candice Carty-Williams for ‘Queenie’
• Eliza Clark for ‘Boy Parts’
• Abigail Dean for ‘Girl A’
• Naoise Dolan for ‘Exciting Times’
• Stacey Halls for ‘Mrs England’
• Sairish Hussain for ‘The Family Tree’
• Daisy Johnson for ‘Sisters’
• Chibundu Onuzo for ‘Sankofa’

All ten shortlisted authors feature within Good Housekeeping’s February 2022 magazine and across the brand’s digital channels. Good Housekeeping readers will now also have the chance to choose one overall winner via goodhousekeeping.com, to be announced in the December 2022 issue.