After much deliberation, we’ve narrowed down our entries to the longlist below:

1. After the Fire
2. Between the Sea and the Shore
3. Blood Money
4. Blue is Truth
5. Calloused
6. Carburetors and Cupcakes
7. Cascading
8. Devil Girl
9. Figments
10. Glacier
11. Gone Viral
12. I See Red
13. Into the Soup
14. Nogales
15. On Tuesday I Will Kill Him
16. Pity-Heart
17. Places I Find My Mother
18. Riding the Tiger
19. Rooks Cry from the North
20. Rules for Living with a Rougarou
21. Saviour of the Broken
22. Sentenced to Love
23. Simulacrum
24. Teddy Mills
25. Thawed Waters
26. The Adding up of Little Things
27. The BODYCON
28. The Death and Rapture of Anthony C. Wong at the Double Dragon
29. The Furies
30. The Last Will and Testament of Peter Pan
31. The Notebook of Things That Happened That Shouldn’t Have Happened
32. The Pavement Gardener
33. The Other Side of Time
34. The Savage Path
35. The Secret Lives of the Doyenne of Didsbrook
36. The Surfer Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
37. The Voyagers
38. The Witches of Undoing
39. Things I Want Back from You
40. Twenty-Eight to Forty: A Memoir
41. Unclean
42. Unexpected and Overamped
43. We Drink to Calm Our Bodies
44. Where Streets Have No Names
45. Your Name is a Myth

The shortlist will be announced on the 25th of September… Good luck, everyone!