Karen Joy Fowler’s We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (Serpent’s Tail) has made the Warwick Prize for Writing shortlist. It is one of six titles under consideration for the £25,000 biennial literary award.

The international and cross-disciplinary award, run by the University of Warwick, is open to any genre or form of writing. The theme for this year’s prize is “Instinct.”

The judging panel, chaired by Warwick Associate Professor, alumna and author A. L. Kennedy (chair), includes author and academic Robert Macfarlane, actress and director Fiona Shaw, Warwick alumnus and Lonely Planet founder Tony Wheeler and physician and writer Gavin Francis.

[Via Locus Online.]