Julia Elliott's story collection HELLIONS was named a finalist for the Carole Shields Prize for Fiction. The winner of the prize will receive $150,000 USD and a five-night stay at Fogo Island Inn, while the four finalists will each receive $12,500 USD. The jury’s citation for HELLIONS reads: “This eerie, eclectic, genre-leaping collection takes no half-measures; every sentence of HELLIONS crackles or crawls. Here, human folly moves against a backdrop of horror and magic. There’s folklore in these stories, and Southern gothic horror, and surrealism, and fantasy, and, at their center, a thread of uneasy, bodily realism. The work evokes writers like Angela Carter, Dorothy Allison, Gloria Naylor, and Kelly Link. But for all its wildness, there is tremendous control; Elliot is a gifted and thrilling writer.” The winner will be announced on June 2 at a ceremony in Toronto. Tin House published HELLIONS on April 15, 2025.