Longlist and shortlist announced for 2018

Finalists for the inaugural Stockholm Writers Festival “First Pages Prize” has been announced for 2018.

With high quality entries of fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry, received from all over the world, we have been so impressed with the 254 submissions to the inaugural First Pages Prize. It was hard for our team of readers to only settle on a shortlist of ten and a longlist of thirty with so many entries coming very close to making the final list.

One winner and four runners)up have been chosen. They will be announced today at Berghs School of Communication, during the Stockholm Writers Festival.

THE SHORTLIST (in alphabetical order):

Enough to Lose, "The Mirror" by R.S. Deeren

Islanders by Anna Delany

The Tire Lady of Possum Run Road by James Demonte

White Bend by Zoë Harris

Harper Holloway and the Disappearance of Arabella Sent by Kristy Keller

The Silver Trail by Adam McCulloch

Drums and Electricity by Lane Shipsey

Plagued (The Myth and the Math) by Katie Simon

Kay Covey by Megan Swenson

The Imperishables by George Tully

THE LONGLIST (IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER):

A Nice Piece of Work by Ron Pavellas

Memories are Made of This by Simon Linter

Beatrix by Candace Walsh

Every Other Place by Adam Keogh

Listeners by Poppy Sebag-Montefiore

The Cubicle Giant by Seth Sawyers

The Mapmaker's Body by Rebecca Wurtz

I'll Tell You What They Call You by Marion Douglas

Dead Girl by Ambika Thompson

Outside by Rosemary Milne

After the Coup by Eneida Alcalde

A Lament for Tyr by Chris Barker

Blue Period by Maxwell Addington

Onstages by Katie Markovich

Self-Adressed by Alycia Pirmohamed

Madonna of the Pomegranate by Arin Fong

Fuji Views by Jennifer Butler

How to Become the Super Lightweight Champion of the World by Lucas Schaefer

Truthsayer by Cassandra Ware Blomberg

DIY Killer by Louise Erixon

Congratulations to all.