2022 First Novel Award Longlist

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20 July 2022

We are thrilled to announce the BPA First Novel Award 2022 Longlist. This year’s judges are literary agents Rowan Lawton and Marina de Pass from The Soho Agency and author Jo Bloom (Permission, Ridley Road). Prizes for the winners include agent introductions as well as cash and an editorial report. The Award is given to unpublished writers without representation.

We received more than 950 entries from writers throughout the UK and across the globe. As usual, there was an incredibly high standard in historical fiction and this year brought some brilliant twisty thrillers. It was also great to see titles in the fantasy, speculative, YA, and romance genres, as well as plenty of book club and literary fiction.

This year’s Longlist includes stories of experimental therapy techniques for the unhappily married, a babysitter obsessed with her employer, a world where emotions can be offloaded to paid carriers, and a romance in the Great Storm of 1703.

The Shortlist will be announced in the first week of August. Those writers shortlisted will be asked to submit an additional 15,000 words to their original 5,000 word opening extract.

The names of writers on the Longlist will be announced along with the winners at the end of September. In the meantime, many congratulations to the authors of the following 23 exceptional titles:

 

The Angel and the Apothecary

The Dead Phone

Eliza’s Corner

Emotional Transport

The Fall of Bellweather

Felicity Braithwaite is Done with Being Nice

The Gibbous

The Husband Whisperer

I Do Not Know What She Sees

In a Quare Country

Life’s Too Short

The Most Beautiful Woman in the World

The Mouth That Swallows

My Father, the God

On My Mind

Paper Boats in Darjeeling

Petal

The Seafarer and the Storm

Something of a Hoax

Take this Light

Taking on the King

Traps

White Yams

 

 

 

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