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NBCC Longlist Carol Shields Prize for Fiction Longlist “An absurdist masterpiece. Nothing, just nothing, is as wild, outrageous, and free as Sea, Poison.” —AMINA CAIN “Mind-bending” — SHEILA HETI, GRANTA “Above all its tricks, this rewarding and uncompromising novel is distinguished by its deliriously wild writing... It’s impossible not to be swept up in Beilin’s wake.” — PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY, STARRED REVIEW “Beilin can be very funny, as when Cumin mistakes a Glade PlugIn (shell design) for a madeleine-shaped butt plug. But the real subject here is human suffering—and in particular the medical mistreatment of women—and the question at the heart of the book is: How do we bear witness to abuse?” — KIRKUS REVIEWS Excerpt in TANK Magazine “The daily frustrations of creative life, the generative power of constraints, the failure of the US healthcare and housing systems, a donkey that somehow resembles Daniel Day-Lewis: it’s all in there.” — CASSIE PACKARD, FRIEZE Interview in FRACTURED LIT w/ Sophie Drukman-Feldstein Between the Covers w/ David Naimon “Cumin’s most intimate developing relationship is not between other characters but with the readers.” — JILLIAN DAMIANI, COMPULSIVE READER “In “Sea, Poison,” Beilin forces a confrontation with the reality of medical crime, and emerges from this vision of medical “poison” with the conclusion that what really matters is to describe experience, to bear witness, and see poison.” — KATE BANEY-GIAMPOALA, THE BI-COLLEGE NEWS “Beilin, wizard that she is, manages to make you laugh even at the darkest of scenarios.” — DIANA ARTERIAN, LITERARY HUB “Beilin’s comedic flair has an anarchic, Marx Brothers-ish aura, mocking everything including itself.” — RON SLATE, ON THE SEAWALL “It’s an extremely funny, incredibly dark novel about Philadelphia, experimental eye surgery, terrible roommates and widespread sexual abuse. There’s also a chapter-length parody/rewrite of a Shusaku Endo novel set at the Jersey Shore and a bravura section that omits the letter ‘E.’ ‘Polyamory is only pragmatic if what you want isn’t good’ is one such e-less sentence, and also maybe the novel’s motto. Beilin is a genius.” — ANDREW MARTIN, INSIDE HOOK “I would campaign for Jessie Buckley to star in Sea, Poison–or play any character, really–if it ever becomes a movie. Charlie Kaufman, are you reading this?” — KEVIN SAMPSELL, SOUTHWEST REVIEW https://www.carenbeilin.com/about daily 0.75 2026-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60cf8dc40c7c872f03e4fa24/9cb7ce7b-ea60-4842-a78f-b9d3a004b002/Belin+Web+2025+-2.jpg about - Caren Beilin is the author of the novel Sea, Poison (New Directions, 2025), longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction and the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. Her previous books include Revenge of the Scapegoat (Dorothy, 2022)—winner of the Vermont Book Award for Fiction—Blackfishing the IUD (Wolfman Books, 2019), Spain (Rescue Press, 2018), The University of Pennsylvania (Noemi Press, 2014), and the chapbook Americans, Guests, or Us (Diagram/New Michigan Press, 2012). Some of these titles have been published abroad with Scribner (UK), The Last Books (Amsterdam), and los tres editores (Madrid). She lives in Cleveland where she is Fiction Editor for Cleveland Review of Books and an Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University. photograph by Carleen Coulter