Writing Award 2022

Your life's a mess, you have the chance to go back and fix it, easy right? Wrong.
Sam Harris has one great skill, making bad decisions he's brilliant at it. With echoes of Midnight Library by Matt Haig, Future Proof is a romantic comedy romp back through the life, love and timeline of Sam.

In a city crumbling away into a lake of fire, 17yo Vara sides with the government who killed her father against a community who just wants peace. To save the lives she risked, she must be more than her test scores indicated. City of Monsters is a dystopian fantasy with neurodiverent representaiton.

In the turmoil of Thatcher's Britain in the 80's a sharp lad with ambitions can get ahead, if he's prepared to pay the cost. Rookie journalist Jude Devlin hooks a big story but has to decide if he's prepared to endanger his workmates and family to land it.

A story of two brothers thrown into the pitiless conflict called “The Great War” when the world went mad. One brother faces a top-class enemy sniper on the front. The other brother faces a pathological narcissist, filled with a lust for revenge, and part of a communist revolt in their home country.

Imagine ten ancient, god-like beings from the dawn of civilisation have been trying (and for some time largely failing) to watch over humankind. While they were busy disagreeing over what to do for best, humanity slid ever further into the clutches of an oppressive regime.

Why let the truth ruin the dream...
She is a young woman in a man's world, committed only to career. But then a client offers her a different future. One she never knew she wanted. One she'll never be able to have, as she's lured into a web of lies, forced to fight for the truth, and her sanity.

Twin brother and sister find out they have another father - the biological one - and reject him, but also fear that the father who brought them up as his own will not want them anymore once he finds out the truth.

She’s a rogue special forces agent trying to outrun her past.
He’s an escapee from the Hermit Kingdom trying to recapture his.
Two lives that should never have crossed are tangled together in the Tokyo underworld.

A thriller about a man who runs away from his own murder. Set largely in Hungary, where Michael Butler worked for an international organisation in Budapest and had been helping the Roma leader Paolo Crusesco expose the people trafficking and sex trade of their women. (80,000 words approx.)