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

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