2025 Writing Mentorship Award (for unfinished or finished manuscripts)
When a quiet Wiltshire librarian discovers she’s being hunted for powers she didn’t know she had, she must survive a global witch purge, unlock the truth of her lineage, and choose between the man who sees her humanity… and the one who ignites her power.
Diagnosed with an autoimmune condition, Elena Russo's looking for answers. A discovery about her late father leads Elena to India where she tracks down the place he had his future read to him from an ancient Nadi Leaf. But what good comes from knowing your future? Can Elena find her way to healing?
When poorly and lonely William names a scruffy, one-legged pigeon Jack, he doesn’t just find a friend — he finds the courage to imagine, explore, and heal. Together they travel the world from his bedroom window… until it’s time for William to fly solo.
A dwarven barbarian burdened by destiny, searching for her redemption. A sassy, sensual, cocksure gothic fae bard, looking for a way to save his dying sister. A journey that binds them as hunter and prey. Finding love while failing to save the world, bringing about a dark prophecy and war.
Satulinar Cosmina, a young orphan unsure of her place in the world, sets off to save her sister from bandits, but soon finds herself on an epic quest to save her land from an ancient evil.
A dissolute marketing guru must dismantle the AI cult he helped create in a dark comedy reminiscent of Paul Murray and the social satire of White Lotus. With suspense elements, this story charts the existential crisis that has led humans to trust machines more than each other.
As East London gentrifies and dark forces gather, can three very different women fight forces of misogyny and empower a new generation of witches? The charming wildness of PRACTICAL MAGIC meets the warmth of THE VERY SECRET SOCIETY OF IRREGULAR WITCHES, for fans of A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES and anyone...
A DCI fighting severe OCD must confront his lifelong fear and dark past to solve five murders in the corrupt world of dog showing, proving he is worthy of promotion.
A gruff gun-for-hire who can’t pull the trigger must outwit a jealous sheriff brother, navigate madness-inducing mists, and outplay the keeper of an ancient, buried city to protect his power to manipulate weather and to prevent his new teen apprentice from becoming the monster he sees in himself.
Some stories end in fire. Others begin with it. Scarlet has tasted love, loss, and the agony of being reborn. To end centuries of bloodshed, she must return to where it all began—and decide who lives, who dies, and whether to burn the world that built her… or become its god.
Cory Bradley, a well-loved trawler captain, is attacked and left for dead. Meantime his wife has disappeared. Then the body of a woman washes up on the beach and an unoccupied building shows signs of having recently been lived in. Suddenly, in quiet Scarsbury the apparently obvious just isn't.
When parallel selves start sending warnings, Berlin author Elena Kugel laughs it off—until her unfinished manuscript is stolen and published under another name. Now the voices are multiplying, and Elena must decide which version of herself to trust to reclaim what was hers.
On a witch-hunting planet, a desperate healer whose magic is fading must ally with her nemesis to avert war before the price of success becomes unbearable.
A Lovecraftian monster invades a Sally Rooney-style relationship story. A young woman, over-reliant on her relationship with her boyfriend, moves into a house with him, which contains a telepathic Creature. The creature offers to secure her relationship in exchange for live prey.
When an ambitious career woman regains consciousness with no memory of the night before, she must work with a therapist to uncover the truth, both about that night, and the illicit love which led her to self-destruct.
A demon haunts the catacombs of a cathedral, and it's left to Sister Mara and Princess Vera to exorcise it before it threatens the surface world. When they explore the catacomb's depths, they find much more than just crypts and bones.
A patient wakes from a coma with no name and a bullet in his head. As a retired neuropsychologist and a homicide detective dig into his fractured mind, buried memories surface—ones not his own. The deeper they go, the closer they get to the truth: he isn’t who he thinks he is. He never was.
Charlie Gorham becomes a medical student, not to become a doctor but to uncover the truth behind his father’s death. Instead he unearths a conspiracy involving Big Pharma and its commercial interests.
Two versions of Matilda – a stressed-out mother and a fading opera star – swap lives in their search for true love. IN ANY LIFE combines the chemistry of Emma and Dexter in ONE DAY with the multitude of possibilities in THE VERSIONS OF US
When a burnt-out pharmaceutical ad writer with bipolar disorder learns her estranged father is dying, she travels to Bangkok—where she was born and he now lives—in search of answers. What follows is a reckoning with identity, grief, and the messy work of making peace with the people who shaped her.
He has a good job. He has respect. He has a lover. But piano-playing banker Sam Vine wants out of his stressful, run-of-the-mill life. Two wily women, his lover and his sister, step in to ‘help’.
Visit the Bronze Age Aegean, where perfect blue waters hide pirates and blades, raiders and slaves, love and loss, and sin. The kings are guilty. No one is innocent. Their war is real. Their gods are not. What really happened? Four Stories. Four struggles for freedom.
The youngest princess of the Heavenly Mountains, whose family possesses the legendary tree of Peaches of Immortality, encounters Kunmi, the god of Ili, who reveals a reality very different to what she's always known, and must find the way to true eternal life, even if it costs her everything.
A clever girl focused on the future and an immature boy determined for an unchanging life must choose if they will forsake each other to pursue what their adoptive parents want for them.
A genius's creation aims to improve the quality & length of life of the nation's citizens. When the government commandeers the system & begins to use it for its own sinister purposes, a protege of the corrupt Minister must find the strength to bring down a system she helped create.
