2026 Best True Story Unpublished Manuscript

In the post-COVID era, a nineteen-year-old law student clings to denial and substances to ignore her crashing academic performance, and the notion that this bizarre party across the street might have noticed her.

Born at the dawn of the Second World War, a German girl comes of age between two opressive regimes, her quest for freedom carrying her from behind the Iron Curtain to the shores of California.

Three marriages. Three Daves. “David” means the Beloved—and as I searched for the Beloved, the Beloved was reaching back to me, again and again, in the most unexpected ways. In a world starved for belonging and desperate to feel truly loved, many readers wrestle with shame, rejection, and the fear...

This is a story where I express how the St. Louis Mercy Hospital and my mom’s stroke affected my life at the age of fifteen.

Faint, distant, a warbling fragment of what sounded like a 1960s rock song, distorted as if drifting through miles of jungle air. The collector frowned. That was impossible. The US Vietnam War radio's frequencies were long obsolete. It shouldn't be able to receive modern transmissions—if any at all...

Fanny Herbert is a naïve young girl who becomes pregnant by a Primitive Methodist Minister. Three months after starting work for the Reverend’s family, he seduces her. She consents to a sexual relationship believing that the Reverend is in love with her. His wife, Elizabeth, discovers Fanny is...

Inspired by a true story, an elderly woman recounts the tales of her ancestors from the age of the Romanovs through today and how their struggles, sacrifices, and perseverance influenced her decision to have an operation to save her life.

Gripped by her grandmother Lucy Ker’s dramatic stories of her life in China from the Boxer Rebellion to the deposing of the Last Emperor, Kate follows in her footsteps a century later.