Top 20 Literary: First Chapters
(titles listed in no particular order)

Hani
Madrid Haunts
The Recipe of You
Nurture
Huberta
The Remnants of Silence
The Knowing Game
The Music of Our Lives
Dear Louis
The Flamingo’s Last Parade
Ghost Snow River
Disappearing
Antediluvian
Lime Juice Money
A Philosopher Loose in America
Bard at the Bijou
All the Thing We Cry For
The Discriminatriz
Blurred Like Ephesus
No Place I’d Rather Be

Congrats to those who made the Top 20. There were 157 entries in total (including Bursary, and 50% Discounted categories). If you didn’t get through to the final 20 this time, why not enter our NEW Science Fiction / Fantasy (5000 word max.) with literary agent, and Director of the Soho Agency, Ben Clark, as judge. Top prize: £1,000. Deadline: 30th June, 2023.

The announcement of the shortlist of 10 will happen on the News Page next week. So, pop back to see which stories make the final 10.