3QD Arts & Literature Prize Semifinalists 2015

The voting round of our arts & literature prize (details here) is over. Thanks to the nominators and the voters for participating.

So here they are, the top 21 (there was a tie for the last four places), in descending order from the most voted-for:

1. The Millions: One Long Country Song: What Friday Night Lights Taught Me About Storytelling
2. 3 Quarks Daily: Transmutations of the Qasida Form and Ghalib’s Qasida for Queen Victoria
3. The Millions: Dance to the Music of Time
4. Vapour Trails: Miss Lonelyhearts
5. The Art of Future Warfare: War in Heaven
6. The Millions: The Last English Teacher
7. Literary Kicks: First There Is A Mountain
8. The Quarterly Conversation: Breathturn into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry of Paul Celan
9. The Philosopher's Beard: The Case for Subsidising Art (and Taxing Junk Entertainment)
10. Anatomy of Norbiton: Spatial
11. Terrain: The Good, the Bad, and the White Man's Mexico Novel
12. Los Angeles Review of Books: 18 Hours Before the Mast
13. The Homing Pigeon Experience: Skin in the Game: Two Versions of Cheap Meat
14. 3 Quarks Daily: Eight Decades of Indian Contemporary Art
15. Novel Readings: “A life entirely through objects”: Edmund de Waal, The Hare with Amber Eyes
16. A Wine Dark Sea: On Smoking Whale Vomit
17. 3 Quarks Daily: A Place Called Home
18. Avidly: Editing as carework: the gendered labor of public intellectuals
19. Avidly: Weird Sex
20. Granta: Ventimiglia
21. The Millions: Gestation of Ideas: On Vertical Writing and Living

The editors of 3 Quarks Daily will now pick the top six entries from these, and after possibly adding up to three “wildcard” entries, will send that list of finalists to Jonathan Kramnick for final judging. We will post the shortlist of finalists tomorrow.