This doesn’t get any easier, narrowing down a large pool of good novel excerpts to a longlist of pieces we wanted to keep reading, with characters we grew to care about in 5,000 words or less. Congratulations to the 31 writers on this list!
- Such Lovely Remains
- Bright Light on the Horizon
- Reluctant Reinvigoration
- One Foot Out
- When the Witchgirl Came to Town
- The Flame Inside
- The Forever Opposition
- A Fire at Valleyview Nursing Home
- The Doorknob Thief
- A letter from the outskirts of Hektaria
- A Queen Knows No Fear
- Theropods – Chapter 22 – Al-Radom Preserve
- 230 2nd Street, Fall River
- The Duskingr Saga, Volume 2
- Homecoming
- Chocolate Wine
- Ladies’ Mechs
- Earth Upon an Exasperated Galaxy
- from The Glorious and the Vile
- Married to the Manchu Prince
- The Excursionist
- Blood of the River Dragon
- My Song in the House of Night
- Woe Is She
- Dropouts- A Heller Investigation
- Confluence
- Of Blood and Water – Chapters 2 to 4
- Hunting Season
- Threnody Excerpt: Chapter 15 Kesselmas
- Legacies
- Poetic Justice