2024 Book Award Longlist

Page Turner Awards is delighted to announce our 2024 Book Award Longlist, shown in random order!

Please join us in congratulating these rising stars by leaving them a comment at the bottom of their finalist submission. Click 'see more' to read their submission.

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! These authors will be in the running to win our Prolific Author Award.

Also browse through the list of Best Book Cover Finalists - these submissions are judged on the book cover, not the written submission.

Find finalists by adding a first name or surname into the search box below. Please only search by the author's name.

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Miranda Levi for "Mork The Handsome Orc: A Mythiverse Story "
Genre: Childrens Middle Grade Books

Miranda Boyer is an award-winning author, publisher, and lifelong storyteller whose work explores themes of identity, resilience, and magic in the face of adversity. She is best known for her Fountain of Youth series, a genre-bending YA fantasy saga that weaves together reincarnation, found family

Lisa Selvidge for "The Trials of Tricia Blake"
Genre: Young Adult

I am a writer and tutor of creative writing for universities in the UK, and an older mum to a wonderful boy, age 12. We live in Portugal, way up in the mountains, and we have two ponies and a dog. Inspired by my son and our travels in our campervan, I am writing a series about a magic campervan

Glenn Somodi for "Olly & the Spores Book Series"
Genre: Childrens Middle Grade Books

Glenn Somodi writes his stories in the short space between lying down and dreaming. The stories are written over many nights, replayed, and rewritten in his head for enjoyment. His mission is to find anyone who enjoys reading the stories as much as he enjoys creating them. Inspired by some of his

OC Heaton for "LEAP, Book 1 in The Race Is On series"
Genre: Suspense & Thriller

I try to make sense of this beautiful, crazy world we inhabit through my stories—thrillers that are super well researched inside complex plots full of twists and turns, that pose ethical and moral dilemmas. When I sit down to write a book, I have three non-negotiables: 1. It needs to concern a

Rose Carmichael for "Hijabs, Hitchhiking and Hangovers: Lessons from Iran"
Genre: Non-Fiction

Book is published under a pseudonym, Rose Carmichael. Rose Carmichael is a linguist, writer and journalist. Rose grew up in the countryside in Cambridgeshire, before moving to Dubai, Tehran and then eventually, London. After graduating from the University of Cambridge, where she studied Middle

Robbi Bryant Bryant for "The Darkness"
Genre: Horror

Hi! You might wonder why a sweet woman like me writes dark books focused on fictional serial killers. (The Darkness and the soon-to-be-published Last Breath). It's simple--the whole thing fascinates me. Having confronted the dark side, I now have the experience of knowing a sociopath or two. One was

Jill Culiner for "Those Absent on the Great Hungarian Plain"
Genre: Non-Fiction

Born in New York, and raised in Toronto, Jill Culiner, writer, social critical artist, and photographer has spent most of her life in France, England, Germany, Hungary, Turkey, Holland, and North Africa. Her photographic exhibition about the First and Second World Wars, La Mémoire Effacée, toured

WILLIAM KAUFMANN for "Radical Encounter"
Genre: Sci-Fi

I won the Moth Story Slam this past July with the subject of Denial. Seems like denial is pervasive these days. Contestants had 5 minutes to tell their tale, without notes, in front of a packed audience at the Parkway theater in Minneapolis. I highly recommend writers find the Moth Story Slam in