we are very glad to announce the finalists of 2023 contest!!
NOVEL UNPUBLISHED
Heaven Drove – Vivian Oleander
Killing Zeus – Irene Fenn
Seasons of Four Faces – Benjamin Kwakye
Do You Want This Life? – Thomas Gordon Reynolds
Canada
Paradisos – Bill Kokkaris
Australia
Until the End – Dane Diamond
Sunshine – Tashi Chaturvedi
NOVEL PUBLISHED
Fire on the Island -Timothy Jay Smith
France
The Folly at Raighvan Park – Judith Crow
Scotland
Funeral by Daisuke Shen and Vi Khi Nao
From The Village Of Lucca, – JP Roarke
The Vanishing Sky – L. Annette Binder
Dis-Affected – Lew Passmore
United Kingdom
Bed Table floor – Csilla Toldy
Northern Ireland
POETRY UNPUBLISHED
Waiting for Godot In the Blue Corolla – Jennifer M Phillips
USA
Telling – Mary Paulson
USA
Caesura – Nancy Burke
USA
Arbor Vitae – Maureen Alsop
My Favourite Colour Is You – Cheyenne Macrides
United Kingdom
POETRY PUBLISHED
Anamnesis – Denise O’Hagan
Australia
The Nameless – Brandi George
Tourist- TAK Erzinger
Switzerland
The World is Our Anchor – Emma Wynn
USA
Amiss – Gina Ferrara
USA
HISTORICAL FICTION / MEMOIR UNPUBLISHED
Footbridge to Sunset – Oma Stanescu
26.2″ – Amy Cleven
The coffee lovers, Memoirs of a Communist Princess
– Ilinda Brunner
Antediluvian Quest – Peter Hankins
United Kingdom
Finding Strength In Scars: How Things That Break Us Make Us Stronger – Rachel McNair
USA
HISTORICAL FICTION / MEMOIR – PUBLISHED
The New Empire – Alison McBain
Canada
Magda, Standing – Christine Fallert Kessides
USA
The House Filler – Sherry Wong
Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops – Allison Hong Merrill
Ships in the Desert -Jeff Fearnside
USA
SHORT STORIES UNPUBLISHED
There is no death in finding Nemo – Jeffrey M. Feingold –
United Kingdom
The House of Genyo and other stories – Terry Watada
Canada
Aegina Tales – Alexander Matheou
Machinations of the Heart and other Stories – Anna Mantzaris
USA
The Weather house – David Hill
United Kingdom
SHORT STORIES PUBLISHED
Conquered by Fog -Fabiana Elisa Martínez
USA
A Perfect Day to Die – Yoko Morgenstern
Canada / Germany
The Peculiarities of Yearning – Stephanie Carty
United Kingdom
Set a Crow to Catch a Crow – Mary-Jane Holmes
United Kingdom
Attention Seekers – Emma Brankin
United Kingdom
CHILDREN BOOKS UNPUBLISHED
Above and Beyond – Adrian Lynch
England,
Letter of hope – Iryna Polishchuk
Ukraine
Comanche & Djinn VS Grown-ups – Maziar Lahooti
Australia
How the Children of Chernobyl and Their Alien Friend Saved the Planet Earth – Ilinda Stefanova Brunner
Australia
The Grandmaster’s Sword – Karin Bachmann
Switzerland
CHILDREN BOOKS PUBLISHED
My name is Cinnamon – Vikas Prakash Joshi
India
The Girl in the Water-Joseph Howse
Canada
The Magic of Believing – Diane Dowsing Robison
Igloo – Jennifer Burkinshaw
Leave No Footprints – Judith Brulo