It’s the moment you’ve been waiting for! Today, the Voyage Team is over the moon to announce the winners of our 2022 Novel Excerpt Contest! We were all in agreement that it’s the talent for us! A huge round of applause for the writers who submitted and took a chance on themselves. No matter the decision, we are so proud of each and every writer! An enormous thank you to our guest judges, Literary Agents Leah Pierre at Ladderbird Literary Agency, Ernie Chiara at Fuse Literary Agency, and Savannah Brooks at KT Literary. And of course, a big thank you to Literary Agents Taj McCoy at Reese Literary Agency, Jess Dallow at Brower Literary Management, and Hannah VanVels Ausbury at Belcastro Agency for assistance with feedback to our finalists and submitters.
First Place Winner:
Chelsea Logan for The Whole of Alastair Winter
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Top Nine Finalists:
Maya Afilalo for Leaning Against the Sun
Hardy Griffin for Broken Kismet
Austin Bridges for Path of Daedalus
Kayla Green for The Grief Monster
Jersey Griggs for Dark Summer
Nicole Green for BITE
Cristina dos Santos for When Night Comes
Amanda Floresca for Rum Gully Girl
Mima Tipper for Chasing a Blue So Wild
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Ten Finalists for Agent Feedback:
George Morvis for Spearfish
Marion Ruybalid for Not My Native Land
Jeff Gallagher for Mile Marker 17
Liz von Klemperer for Flower Girl
Heather Davis for Fewer
A. K. Mintah for The Second Prince: A Cinderella Reimagining
Vandana Khanna for Patron Saints of Lost Causes
River Braun for The Book of Crush
Carrie Wallace for A Loosely Strung Sky
Andrea Rivard for Orbit
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Longlist
Sue Giplaye for The Brownsville Life: Ebony Doe
Casey Andrews for An Incantation of Hexecats
Kat Boyd for Bricks
Elise Chidley for Deepwood: A Circle of Seven
Melissa Pinhal for The F Word
Kat Gonso for Elle’s Guide to Worst Possible Outcomes
Christy Lenzi for For Our Crimes
Anndee Hochman for My Plural is People
Ali Meyers-Ohki for The Staying Spell
Chen Gu for See You Again
Shaily Yashar for Love Unpublished
Jesse Weiner for The Most Beautiful Thing in Paris
Christopher Renna for Salt of the Sea
Ellen Rozek for Facing the Music