We love celebrating the best excerpts of novels in progress, and we’ve got three great examples from these co-winners! It takes a special writer to craft an excerpt that reads like a complete story and yet fits perfectly in a longer narrative!
Co-Winner: Such Lovely Remains by R.H. Acosta
Co-Winner: The Flame Inside by Emanuelle Burton
Co-Winner: A Fire at Valleyview Nursing Home by Elizabeth Conway
- Such Lovely Remains by R.H. Acosta
- The Flame Inside by Emanuelle Burton
- The Forever Opposition by Sean Connell
- A Fire at Valleyview Nursing Home by Elizabeth Conway
- The Doorknob Thief by Kristin Eade
- A letter from the outskirts of Hektaria by Johanna Ecker
- 230 2nd Street, Fall River by Lauren Funaro
- Homecoming by C.L. Halvorson
- Ladies’ Mechs by Kris Herndon
- Poetic Justice by Kay “Kro” Kroger
- Married to the Manchu Prince by Jiwen Lei
- Blood of the River Dragon by Lily Lu
- My Song in the House of Night by Shannan Mann
- Woe Is She by Morgan Nyx
- Hunting Season by Tessa Swackhammer