2023 First Novel Award Longlist

Peggy Lee

Peggy Lee

18 July 2023

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]We are thrilled to announce the BPA First Novel Award 2023 Longlist. This year’s judges are literary agents Eve White and Ludo Cinelli from the Eve White Literary Agency and author Luan Goldie (Nightingale Point, Homecoming, These Streets).  Cash prizes and agent introductions will be awarded to the winner, runner up and a commended entrant.

We received more than 1,000 entries from writers throughout the UK and internationally. As usual, we welcomed titles in historical fiction, crime and book club fiction, as well as psychological thrillers, YA, fantasy and speculative fiction. Recurrent themes were missing or absent mothers, women fighting for independence, and a preoccupation with the sea, increasingly hostile and yet a means of escape.

This year’s longlist includes stories about a shapeshifting wolf, a bride declared a Hindu goddess, courtesans plotting to kill an Emperor, an art forger, a DJ at a roller disco and murder in an Oxford College.

The Shortlist will be announced on July 28. 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 beginning of October.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] In the meantime, many congratulations to the authors of the following 22 exceptional titles:

 

A Perpetually Burning Building

The Artist

As Feathers in the Breeze

The Bystander

Chopin’s Bones

Epicharis

For Sugar

In a Quare Country

Just Fantastic

Little Creatures

Mrs P goes to Town

My Name is Fee O’Leary

Orbiting Polaris

The Oxford Handbook of Murder

Paper Cuts

Portrait of A Secret

RAMRAJ

The Show Woman

Silverfern

The Slip

Sun of Broken Glass

The Truth About Dust

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Peggy Lee

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