Announcing our Winner and Highly Commended 2025
Hello,
After months of judging we now finally have the winner and highly commended for Cheshire Novel Prize 2025.
Highly commended 2025 is jointly shared by...
Salt, Water and Air - Literary Fiction by Grace Harding
Highly commended
And also: By Their Rules - Psychological Suspense by Joanne White
Highly commended
And our winner of Cheshire Novel Prize 2025 is...
My Dark Bowered Queen - Dark Academia by Marianne Van Pelt
Congratulations to all of our shortlisted and longlisted writers
As we opened later this year our feedback will go out from now until the 31st of January 2026.
Thank you to everyone who entered and for trusting us with your words.
The Tortured Writers Podcast
Our brand new podcast’s first episode goes out on Friday 7th November 2025. Our star guest is Will Dean. We have craft tips, book recommendations and fabulous music! Please do follow us and subscribe.
We will be back with more news soon!
Happy writing!
Kind regards
Sara