First Pages Prize 2019 Longlist and Shortlist!

This year’s First Pages Prize received a record number of entries - 583 - and the quality of submissions was very high. 

With entries from all over the world, written in fiction of all genres and creative non-fiction of all stripes, it was hard to settle on a longlist of 38 with many entries coming very close to being on that list. 

The longlist is as follows (in no particular order): 

The Time-Share Husband of Ngulube Road by Tej Rae 
Giants on the Hill, Stars in the Grass by Jarrod Chlapowski 
We Make Them Pay by Sara Allen 
The Waves of Sorrow and Understanding by Nicholas Gerogiannis 
Land of Lambs and Wolves by Rowena Tuziak 
Givenchy's Kiss by Kathleen Latham
Burn Down This World by Tina Egnoski 
The Ghosts We Carry by Fiona White 
Fall and Recovery by Joanne De Simone 
Life / Insurance by Tara Deal 
Mother, Once Removed by Ellen Leary 
The Trailing Edge by Lori Jakiela 
The Resistance Stone: A Family Memoir by Jennie Bauduy 
Convenience Shopping in Thailand by Martin Maroney 
Project Orpheus by Maya James 
Night Watch by Janet Howle 
The Openings by Jessica Lee Richardson 
C8 by Eleanor Roth 
Excerpt from Save As Normal_dating_suicide by Sarah Fay 
Creek by Caitlin Raleigh 
Home and Away by Angie O'Gorman 
… and up to nine! by Tanja Russita 
The Veblen Effect: A Rural American Childhood by Caitlin Hill 
Alex from Ashes by Elena Jube 
Reckoning by Alyson Porter 
Kill for Love by Laura Picklesimer 
Safer to Die by Margaret Weir 
The Californias Between Us by Elizabeth Browne 
Mississippi Goddam by Sarah Fuchs 
The Bright Morning Star by Rebecca Haas 
A Stupid Masculine Show by T. Smith 
And The Rain Came Tumbling Down by Jo Gatford 
Seagull Pie by Sandra Jensen 
Who is William Brown? by Sarah Tanburn 
Hiroshima Bomb Money by Terry Watada 
The Last Field by Louise Tucker 
Thief's Hour by Matthew Scott 
Colony by Lorna Riley 

The shortlist of 11 is as follows (in no particular order):

Giants on the Hill, Stars in the Grass by Jarrod Chlapowski 
We Make Them Pay by Sara Allen 
Givenchy's Kiss by Kathleen Latham
The Trailing Edge by Lori Jakiela 
C8 by Eleanor Roth 
Home and Away by Angie O'Gorman 
Reckoning by Alyson Porter 
Mississippi Goddam by Sarah Fuchs 
The Bright Morning Star by Rebecca Haas 
Seagull Pie by Sandra Jensen 
Colony by Lorna Riley 

Congratulations to all listed writers!

Our three winners will be notified early March. The prize presentation takes place on Friday 3 May, 2019 during the festival. 

Thank you to all who entered. It is always an absolute honor and privilege to read each entry.