Young Writer Award 2022

Somewhere buried beneath this campus, there is a bomb. It’s hidden, but it’s not silent.
And someone will find it.
It just depends on when.

The Wars of Ice and Plenty is a new adult fantasy novel following the journey of a young woman seeking her own identity while learning to navigate life alone in a world made for men.

On an isolated farm with his wife, a protective husband is to be at variance with world ending news that was brought upon by the beset of distressed defectors.

Although Minah is a scholarship student at Nacheon Academy, which trains young mages to be ready to combat abominations like ghouls and vampires, she didn't imagine one of them could actually turn up right here in her city, let alone the corrupted one being one of her best friends, Jaeyun.

Catholic raised Madison Pierce has learned right from wrong from her single mother. And when she finally has to leave for college. She’s forced to put everything she knows to the test. But when she catches the eye of bad-boy Miles Ryder, every rule she has ever known seems to be slowly fading away.

No one told Katie about her twin. And she can’t remember.

Dragons are out, dirigibles are in. When a young rider’s death leaves her dragon’s saddle empty, a restless debutante, poor relation of a dirigible magnate, steps forward to fill it. But behind the walls of the garrison, mutiny simmers: when the reckoning comes, she'll have to choose a side.

Ten years after his disappearance, the body of famous writer Harry Turner is pulled from the Doxey Marshes, prompting an investigation that delves into his most controversial relationships: his wife, his mistress and his underage conquest. In situations like these, is there such a thing as truth?

Meet Roselyn—the deadliest assassin in Rivergarde.
After a lone human murders a fae prince, her father, the human king's general, strikes a bargain to uphold peace. However, this comes at a great cost; Roselyn's freedom. She becomes a prisoner to the precarious fae, acting as collateral.

I hope you are hungry because I have a very delicious story. Under no circumstance is this a recipe book- far from it! This is a story about how the most magnificent restaurant came to be on London's most boring street. By the end you will be so full of imagination you'll be burping creativity!

Veterinarian Cassie takes a sabbatical following a difficult euthanasia. But what begins as a foray into the stunted world of Britain’s agricultural colleges, morphs into an uncomfortable attraction with the garish course director, a reserved man of many secrets. Cassie must choose: love or career.

Five months after my appendectomy and I'm back in hospital, but this time for a major operation. My fear of dying has intensified, I don't trust my body anymore. As I come to terms with this life-changing experience, I philosophically analyse myself and those who have impacted my life.

When a young boy repairs a wrecked boat and sets out to sea, he finds himself on an extraordinary island that is in need of help; but he must choose between staying or finding a way back home.

Hunting the St. Lawerence Strangler, Dr. Bethany Lomax begins to believe there is a psychic link between herself and Canada’s most prolific child murderer.

After the governor of Blockheart conducts assaults on multiple towns in his own province, the survivors are left to escape the monster-infested ruins to come together and force him out of power.

Within a floating world where towers and treetops brush the sun, there is a mysterious island promising power and purpose for any young woman with the means to take it. Here, the paths of an unsure apprentice and a servant who is more than she seems intertwine in the shadow of a brutal murder.

When Ishani begins her degree in History of Art, she is immediately taken with her enigmatic professor, Dr Vivian Holland. But the professor is hiding a dark past that will take them on a journey into the ninth circle of Hell. Will they ever survive? And, if they do, can they ever be the same?

In a dystopia of mental health and obsessive perfectionism, four friends attempt to smuggle students and citizens out from a militant government's control before their lives are claimed either by the government's hand or their own.

In the twilight moments of a life well lived, a man decides that the last thing he wants to do is play a game of Go-Fish with Death.

Rian Baylor escaped life as a slave and found freedom in a new home, an ocean away. But when that home is razed around him, he wants vengeance. He sets out in pursuit of blood and finds instead love, war, and suffering. A girl draws him back to his homeland, where he discovers a secret organization