Longlist 2022

The First Five Pages Prize had more than 800 entries from around the world. Our judges were blown away by the quality of entries across genres. Congratulations to everyone recognized here!

 

Longlist

(alphabetical by surname)

No genre assigned

Azimuth - Chris Barkley

Thick - Rick Bland

Vigilance - Melissa Duclos

Mobile Homes Drive - Alyssa Freeman-Moser

How To Cook A Boy - John Harvey

The Stone - Kate Henzell-Thomas

The Little Artist - Sharon Johnson

The Man with the Amber Halo - Kendall Klym

Black Kite - Amy McDaid

Flat Coins in a Jar - Donna Moreau

Walk Good - Stephanie Mullings

The Coast Road - Alan Murrin

Squid Inc. - Fergus Navaratnam-Blair

Out of Russia - Leopold Newhouse

A Town Like Me - JC Niala

Death Is a Hungry Old Man - Sara Probst

How to Be Australian - Margaret Rodgers

Dear Sabrina - Liza Rose

There You Are - Maria Sabaye Moghaddam

Violet End - Kaylie Saidin

Cooper Creek - Jesse Sherwood

Letters to Matthew - Nathalie van Meurs

The Original Daughter - Jemimah Wei

Hinterland - Kait Yates

Sci-Fi or Fantasy

Jane Unknown - Anna Bierhaus

The Fire Line - Damian Caudill

Them Indoors - Lynda Clark

The Dragon Call - Stephanie Davidson

Cocoon - Philothée Gaymard

45°W, 135°S - Kit Kirkstone

Cast on the Sun - Jessica Lee

Bloody Maiden - Gabriela Maya

The Alchemist - Ryanne Petsche

Broken Shadows - Tyler Phelps

Harvest - Jeffrey Ricker

The Door at the Edge of the World - Ansley I. Schumacher-Chipps

Recombination - Kate Sedor

Saving Summer - Ali Seegar

Blue Silent Freedom - Luke Shepherd

Restless Sands A-Shiftin' - Raina Skotting

Daughters of Nowhere - Kathleen Walters

The Fomoire - Poppy Williams

Historical Fiction

Always the Ghosts Call - K. Austin-Raffan

A Dagger in The Night - Karen Browne

No Monsters but the Biting Wind - Kerri Coombs

Changing Horses - Suzanne Craig Robertson

Disappearing - Moyette Gibbons

Middle of the Sky - Sigal Goldstein

Muerta - Erato Ioannou

Elephant Riot - Ben Kersley

Miranda's War - Andrea Malin

Arctic Red - John McGhie

Truth Be Told - Kay McLoughlin

Belville - Sian Meades-Williams

Mbaquanga Nights - Leonora Meriel

The Cuckoo and the Playing Piece - Alison Offer

Jacopo's Contract - Andrew Okey

In Imminent Danger of Relapsing into Barbarism - Amy Padden

The Golden Fern - Johanna Robinson

Relics - Richard Tegnér

Unspoken History - Carol Tulpar

The Butcher's Apprentice - Wendy A. Warren

Forty Flowers - Penny Grace Young

Romance

Sweatshop in the Sky - Guy Baldwin

The Loudest Quiet - Carri Horner

Photographing Nell - Sandra Jensen

Leaving Ashley - Annette Laarakkers

If This Were a Milonga - Marie McGinley

The Good Heretic - Paul McMichael

Rooftops of Paris at Night - Barry Murphy

Planting Hope - Jennifer Raines

The Bonne Chance Bakery - Charlotte Rains Dixon

Snow For Christmas - Charlotte Rains Dixon

Le Septieme - Ralph Schneideman

Something Happening Above My Head - Julia Smith

Heat - Madison Sotos

Slaughter Dogs - Katherine Westbrook

Crime or Thriller

Snatching Sheila - Laura Brennan

Chain Mail - Des Brown

The Tsar - Des Brown

In the Name of the Father - Anna Chiara Brunetti

The Courtyard - Austin Diaz

Charity Starts at Home - Dev (D.P.) Jannerson

The Broken Remains - Jacqueline Kowalczyk

Folly Ditch - Anna Sayburn Lane

Finite Ghost - Adam Marston

Dark Rainbow - John McGhie

Clean. Freaks. A Novel - Christopher Morris

Papercut - Deborah Murphy

The Sheep of Lodmundarfjord - Jon Palsson

From the Land of Ghosts - Erica Sage

Dead Things - Erica Sage

The Unmaking - Anna Simoni

Stitches - Melissa Stewart

Interstitial - Earle Swope

The Secret Life of Phaedra Fox - Paulette Zander