Literary: First Chapters Long List
(titles listed in no particular order)

Top 20

‘Nothing Really Happened’

‘The Betrothed’

‘The Gift of Sentience and Sorrows’

‘Yggdrasil’

‘All the Hollow Places’

‘The Bright, Bright World’

‘The Book of Tears’

‘Brave Translunary Things’

‘The Three Arrows’

‘Stray Voltage’

‘The Calico Girls’

‘Mammoth’

‘Vivian Maier Framed’

‘Salted Earth’

‘Promising Lands’

‘The Plunge’

‘Siberia’

‘The Hexens of Jackson County’

‘Heron’

‘Daddy Issues’

Congrats to all those 20 aspiring novelists on our long list. We do not publish names until the judging process is complete. We’ll publish names with the final results, the winners, short-listed, long-listed. We publish your name because you asked us to.

The Plaza Poetry Prize (20 lines max) is OPEN to enter. Judge: Lachlan McKinnon. 1st prize: £1,000. Deadline: 30th September 2024.