Happy New Year: our prose competition long-list

Emma Healey, Lynne Bryan and Bel Greenwood
judging the long-list 

Happy New Year to all our supporters. We open this year with news of our prose competition. Emma Healey, author of Elisabeth Is Missing and our guest judge, met with us today to discuss the long-list and decide which out of all these scripts is the worthy winner of our competition and which the highly-commended. It was a very interesting, frank and lively discussion but overall there was consensus. On Saturday 9^th January we will announce the winner of the first prize of £600 and the names of the highly-commended who will be included in our anthology Words & Women: Three. Meanwhile we thought we’d break with tradition and publish the names of those writers who made the long-list. Congratulations to all of you who made it to this stage! And very many thanks to all of you who entered.

Our long-list:

Ann Abineri – Atacama

Amanda Addison - Home

Dahlia Al-Abdullah – Love Knows Not Its Own Depth Until The Hour Of Separation

Deborah Arnander – Calentitos

Mary Bevan – Rites Of Passage

Susan Burton – Strictly Belly Dance

Galya Clark – The Shadows Of The Past

Bella D’Arcy Reed - Pergolas

Caroline Davison – Boy With Gun

Sharon Eckman - Charis

Ceri Edwards – Dear Prudence

Sarah Evans – Scalpelling Through

Layn Feldman – Betty Finds Treasure

Philippa Found – Ice-Cream

Lynne Goodwyn – As I Lie Here

Amy Harrold – My Lost Saint

Victoria Hattersley – Looking For Jim Morrison

Caroline Hopkinson-Woolley – For To Get Out Of The Rain

Danusia Iwaszko – Still Life

Sara Keene -  The Accomplice

Yasmin Keyani – The Rosebud Room

Julie Kemmy - Colin

Isabelle King – You’re In The Movies, Huni

Rory Power – Connect The Dots

Rosie Litterick - Reshaped

Catherine Menon – Sacraments

Margaret Meyer – Leda’s Swan

Kathy Mansfield – The Friends

Nicola Miller – I’m Not Christiane

Antoinette Moses – A Canary In Kabul

Patricia Mullin – Folding

Glenys Newton – The End Of The Line

Sarah Passingham – Back On The Horse

Danielle Redd – The Second First Time

Sarah Ridgard – Thin Walls

Christine Sutton – Holy Smoke

Kate Swindlehurst – Pigeons

Claudine Toutoungi – Room Service

Louise Tree – The Colours Of Snow