Page Turner Awards is delighted to announce our 2023 Writing Award Longlist, shown in random order!
Please join us in congratulating these rising stars by leaving them a comment at the bottom of their submission. Click 'see more' to read their submission. And you can also congratulate the finalists in our forum.
Wherever you see duplicate faces, it's not a mistake, those writers are to be applauded for having more than one submission reach the finals!
Find entrants by adding a first name or surname into the search box below, don't search with both first name and surname.
Chris Berg And Paul James Smith for "THE BLEEDING"
Chris Berg and Paul James Smith are award-winning authors who craft crime thrillers inspired by true events. The retired police detectives are former partners and lifelong friends. Their partnership has yielded critical acclaim, including a Claymore Award and recognition as Pageturner Award
Darrell Bowling for "All's Lost in Love and War"
Darrell Bowling, after a career in corporate aviation spanning fifty-five years, I now follow my favorite pastime, storytelling. With a thirty-year history as a pilot, part-time dealer, and pit boss for Nevada casinos, my background lends me to a life most only dream of. An old Chinese proverb reads
Mikey Jackson for "Disordinary"
Mikey Jackson is a versatile scriptwriter, author and playwright from the seaside town of Worthing, near Brighton, United Kingdom. His plays have been performed in London at the Etcetera Theatre, the Hen and Chickens Theatre and the Libra Theatre. His TV drama spec script Seven Magpies earned him a
Diane Corso for "Broken Things"
Diane Corso is a San Francisco Bay Area blogger at The Corso Papers, where she enjoys writing about bad (and good!) horror films. Her latest novel, Broken Things, placed second in the Horror/Paranormal category of the Pacific Northwest Writers Association Contest for 2023. She recently guested on
John Davis for "Reluctant to Lead: Overcoming Fear of Failure"
Steve conveys perspectives and emotions in poems and songs. His draft memoir, Galvanized, tells how he overcame timidity as an air cavalry officer in the Vietnam War. A tuxedo cat from a shelter encourages him from a perch over his PC keyboard. Steve assists disabled veterans in getting government
Kevin Neill for "A Cypress Tree Has No Shadow"
I recently completed a 20-year career in public health. Prior to that, my life varied from a period spent in the military as a United Nations Peacekeeper in the Middle East to employment as a refugee relief worker in a camp for Bosnian Muslims in Croatia. To date, excerpts from my novel, A Cypress
