The judges for the 2026 Voss Literary Prize for the best novel published in Australia in 2025 long-listed the following titles from the 47 titles which were submitted by publishers:

Randa Abdel-Fattah                  Discipline (University of Queensland Press)

Natalia Figueroa Barroso           Hailstones Fell Without Rain (University of Queensland Press)     

Moreno Giovannoni                  The Immigrants (Black Inc.)        

Raaza Jamshed                         What Kept You? (Giramondo Publishing Company)         

Gail Jones                                 The Name of the Sister (The Text Publishing Company)   

Rachel Morton                          The Sun Was Electric Light (University of Queensland Press)        

Konrad Muller                           My Heart at Evening (Evercreech Editions)         

Omar Musa                               Fierceland (Penguin Books)        

Leonie Norrington, Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs, Djawa Burarrwanga, & Djawundil Maymuru 

A Piece of Red Cloth (Allen & Unwin)

Josephine Rowe                        Little World (Black Inc.)