Names of All Our Listed Writers 2025

With so many entries this year the competition was tough and so a huge well done to all of our listed writers 2025.

Winner

My Dark Bowered Queen – Dark Academia by Marianne Van Pelt

Highly Commended 

Salt, Water and Air – Literary Fiction by Grace Harding

Highly Commended

By Their Rules – Phycological Suspense by J. Morgyn White

 Shortlisted writers

Congratulations to:

The Checkout Girl – Commercial Fiction (withdrawn) by Grace Forrest

Anatomy of a Killing – Crime/Thriller by Emma McDonagh

The Thin Places – Fantasy - by Margaret Kirk – writing as Taylor Duncan

Longlisted Writers

Congratulations to:

 Troll – Crime/thriller  by Emma Green

Blood lines – YA/Fantasy by Nicole Whitton

Blood Floral – Crime/Thriller by Claire Shevlin

The Devil’s Uniform – Historical Fiction by Brenda Davies

The House in Order – Ghost Story by Abby Walker

The Voices in Our Heads – Psychological Suspense by Louise Floyd

The City of Lost Words – Fantasy by Jenna Hanington

The Bitches of Bliss – Book Club by Hannah Yurke

The Theory of Love and Loss by Sarah Wibrow