Many thanks to everyone who submitted their novel opening this year. We have been transported into many different lives all around the world, and beyond our own planet.
Congratulations to the writers who have made the longlist. The novel titles are shown below – please don’t tell which is yours though as we are reading anonymously.
Longlist
- A Beehive Heart
- A More Onerous Citizenship
- After Us, Them
- Birdie of the Wheatsheaf
- Bitter Seed
- Delusion
- Dwell
- Echoes of Beirut
- Everything is Wrong
- Everywhen and the Dark Entanglement
- Forced Perspective
- Frankie
- Going Places
- Moon Bone
- Nine Rooms
- Peter Heggarty Goes Around and Around
- Red
- Singleton
- Sleepwalking
- Somnia
- Splinters from Boxes
- Swimming in the Dark
- The Annihilation Era
- The Blooding of Amelia Sharp
- The Contrabandist
- The Devil in Bangkok
- The Integration Protocol
- The Law of Kindness
- The Possibility of Us
- The Price
- The Ritual
- The Root that Binds
- When the Sea Became the Sky
- White Death
- Who Will Save Us
Good luck for the next round everyone! We will now choose our shortlist of 10, which will be sent to our literary agent judge, Eli Keren, to choose the winners from.
In the meantime, from very long stories to very short! The WestWord Prize Micro Fiction Category, judged by Tania Hershman, closes this month! Info here.