First Chapter Competition Longlist

Thanks so much to everyone who sent in the opening to their novel for this competition. We've been all around the world, backwards and forwards in time, and have met a lot of interesting characters!

Congratulations to the writers of the following novels that have gone through to the next round.

Longlisted Novels

• After Us, Them

• Ailsa, With Ghosts

• An Inquest of Eels

• Bella Ciao

• Between Us

• Bridge of Knowing

• Bringing Janey Home

• Can You Trust a Cuckoo

• Cheese and Other Problems

• Clay Bodies

• Collusion

• Comrade K.

• Empires

• End of Term

• FairyCon

• Fractured

• I Kill Babies

• In Another Life

• Infinity Land

• Ink Dark Nights

• Love Powder

• Mascara Nights

• Sam and Roni

• Standard Definition of Love

• Star

• The Beechwood Chronicles

• The Choice

• The Dead Cat Strategy

• The Delicate Firebrand

• The Haunting Of Hester Dowden

• The Last Soul

• The Other Side of Glass

• The Palace of Deceptions

• The Quest for the Child

• The Strange Talent of Madeleine Mallarkey O.C.

• The Therianthrope Chronicles: Tegan's Story

• The Third Letter

• The Tower

• Time Track

• Uncle Igor and I

• Universal Girl

• Witches of the Blitz

• When the Numbers Don't Add Up

• You, Me, and Sofia