We’re thrilled to announce the twenty novels on our longlist. Congratulations!

Only the titles are published as judging continues anonymously. Our shortlist will be announced in September 2024.

It was hard to choose twenty novels from all the wonderful creative work we received. Thank you to everyone who sent us their words, it takes courage. Please, keep writing!

 

The Top Twenty

Novel Longlist

 

A Hard Place to Love

Babygirl

Between the Silence and the Sound

Bound in Shallows

Emails from Keats

Flotsam

Mammoth

Manhattan Star

Send in the Clowns

Born of Courage

The Hardest Word

The House of Lost Threads

The Legatees

The Perpetual Lives of Horace Greenly

The Pope is Dead

The River is a Brown God

This is About an Alligator and Nothing Else

Why I Shot the Elephant

Wildish

You Can See the End of the World From Here

 

Good luck to all our longlisters for the next stage of the competition.

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