This has been one of our most entertaining and well-written batches of submissions for a Novel Excerpt Prize since we started in 2021. We have finally narrowed the longlist down to 45 thrilling excerpts! We’re still discussing which stories will make the longlist, so we apologize for the delay! The better the submissions, the harder it is to decide which stories to move forward to our judges. Thank you for making this so difficult for us!
- The Summer Child, Chapter 5
- Moonsault
- Amber Skies of a Forgotten Planet, Chapter One
- THE GIRLS WHO CRIED WOLF
- Robin Swift Self-Destructs
- Sudden Death
- Hallow
- Opening Night
- Remorse is Memory Awake—Chapter 1
- An Excerpt from Mindfile
- CHECKPOINT
- Kurt’s Inferno—Chapter One
- Part 1: Hatchling
- Never Said
- Dead Witch Born. The Ballad of Elizabeth Black
- The Siege of the First Kingdom
- The Blood Hustle
- Undergrowth
- Reckonings
- The Sailor
- The Hexens of Jackson County
- Burn Scar
- The Ink Collector
- Mad Scientists And Those Who Love Them
- Fireheart
- Eternal Warrior—Reborn
- Headshots
- Sola
- Pentimento
- Three Cigarettes Til Dawn
- The Gift of Death: Chapter 19
- Portrait of a Ghost
- What Went Down
- Love in the Age of Time Travel
- The Rapping at the Door
- The Eaten Moon
- The Prison Nurse
- The End of Mourning
- Hunting Season
- Saving Plugtown
- Skeins of Fate
- The Hero’s Friend Chapter 1
- The Flight Genesis
- Private Investigations: Perfidious
- The Ten Destructive Suns