Our novel longlist
Congratulations!

Ta dah! We’re thrilled to announce our top 20 novel longlist titles. Congratulations to all the novelists, it’s a huge achievement!

As judging is ongoing and anonymous, only novel titles are revealed.

Good luck

Good luck to the longlisted writers for the next stage of the competition but for now please, secretly celebrate your success!

The shortlist will be announced on 31 August 2023.

Thank you

It really is a privilege to read someone’s work. Thank you to everyone who took the time, energy and effort to send us your novel. Please, don’t give up. There’s always next time.

The Peggy Chapman-Andrews First Novel Award Longlist 2023

A Scrape of Patience

Bem’s Dream War is Two Centimetres Dilated

Exit Interview

Fly Catcher

Hukama (Brotherhood)

I Just Live Here

Lazarus in Heels

Love, I must Go

Martha Dunn

Migratory Patterns

Paradise Beach

Pretzel

Run as if the Devil Were After You

Small Thief

Somewhere to Go

The Chameleon Bush

The Origins of Poppies

The Sunlit Pool of the Finished Image

The Ties that Bind Us

Wolnam