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.
