Thank you to all the INCREDIBLE writers who submitted to our First Chapters contest! We know it wasn’t easy putting yourself and your work out there. We want you to know that we are so proud of you all. No matter where you landed, keep writing, and keep putting your work out there. Thank you to our amazing guest judge, Dhonielle Clayton, and all the agents who agreed to be part of the contest: Eric Smith at P.S. Literary, Leah Pierre at Ladderbird, and Thao Le at Sandra Dijkstra! Winning entries will be published in January!
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First Place Winner: Abraham Johnson for Trip the Light Fantastic
Second Place: Ravynn Stringfield for Passage
Third Place: Grace Shim for The Noh Family
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Finalists
Alexandra Fallgren for Whenever You’re Around
Elnora Gunter for Sisters in Step
Alexander Casey for Simply the Best
Regan Humphrey for What I Know About You
Victoria Koops for A Cosplayer’s Guide on Surviving Comic Con
Gabbi Calabrese for My Sweetest Downfall
K.C. Finn for The S Word
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Longlist
Alaa Al-Barkawi for In the Country I Love
Hiba Tahir for Dear Number 43
Gloria Muñoz for This is the Year
Julie Xia for Triple Point
Cathrina Dionisio for Sanctuaria
Olga Khaminwa for Darkbloods
Nicole Bennett for Pierce the Glowing Sea
Eson Kim for Lennox Uncharted
Zora Asque for The Last Bear of Tilimook
Camille Smaby for The Magician’s Assistant
Sunah Nash for The Seventh Floor
Shome Dasgupta for The First Time They Met
Sandra Martin for Cuban Flight of Peter Pan
Georgia Campbell for Pencil Moods
Lilla Glass for The Unseen
Franklin Ard for Back to Zero
Julia Hou for Something You Could Lose
Friday Faraday for The Black Album
Lara Ameen for Spaer
Sen Huang for Musefire
Alyssa Krob for Heir of the Dead
Soumi Roy for The Eagle and the Viper
Emily Dodge for Daughters of Morrigan
Amanda Floresca for Rum Gully Girl
Sofía Aguilar for Winnie, Not Winnetka
Richard Datzko for Gone to Prey
Aya de Leon for Undercover Latina
Sarah Underwood for Larks in the Springes
Hayley Haggerty for Secrets of the Neath
Davon Loeb for Three-Finger Freddie, a Fight
Melissa Niles for Bubblegum Punk
Di Di Bei for Daughters of Yin and Yang
Rebecca Burton for Circus of Ghosts
Sarah Al-Tamimi for Savage Roads
Kristen Harris for The Ritual of the Eighteenth Year
Sarah Leonard for The Greatest Dream
Sophie Trist for The Ghost Children
Kibkabe Araya for The Uprising of Jesika Jeffries
Abbie Harlow for The Spinner and the Prince
Ariana Cantu for The Slow Cooked Makings of a Sweet Life
Anndee Hochman for My Plural is People
Janice Torres for Embrace the Dark
Jarvis Mitchem for Out of the Ashes
Emily Lee for Great, or Nothing