Page Turner Awards is delighted to announce our 2024 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 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!
Find entrants by adding a first name or surname into the search box below, don't search for the submission title.
Erin Swann for "Stone Belly"
Erin L. Swann is an avid home cook who has taught visual art for eighteen years in Central Maryland. She recently became an online writing instructor for Authors Publish and has given several free online lectures through them as well. Her work appears in numerous anthologies and publications
Adrian Cowderoy for "SUSPICIONS"
I’ve been struggling to write novels for decades, but I couldn’t find a niché that felt right. Then twelve years ago I had a job at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, building intelligence databases. It inspired me to write espionage stories about the real world of modern
Karen Milner for "Savage Sun"
I have always written and though I have never been published, I’ve been placed in many writing competitions: most recently I have been longlisted in the CWA’s Debut Dagger, The Yeovil Literary Prize, Flash 500 Novel Comp, The Joan Dempsey First Chapter Contest and shortlisted in The Retreat West
Mike Darcy for "Little Joe and the Big Rain"
Mike Darcy is the debut author of the Little Joe series, as such it is not a series yet, but trust him, there is more than one book. He spent the better part of his youth wandering the forest, subsisting on foraging wild berries and the generosity of concerned woodland creatures. He holds degrees in
