News - I’ve Been Longlisted for the Discoveries Prize 2022

I’m over the moon to share that I’ve been longlisted for Discoveries 2022!

A partnership between the Women’s Prize, Curtis Brown, and Audible, the Discoveries Prize is aimed at unpublished female writers in the UK and Ireland, and aims to find and support new talent.

Being longlisted out of over 2,000 entries is an incredible feeling and such an enormous boost (not to mention a huge vote of confidence for my current WIP!)

One of the great things about Discoveries is that not only is it free to enter, but you can enter works-in-progress, so you don’t need to have a completed manuscript ready to go. Plus, the judges are looking for promise over polish, so no need to fret about the odd typo or errant comma (phew!)

My entry was pretty rough as it was the opening chapters of something I’d only started a couple of weeks earlier. The WIP was so new that I wasn’t actually going to enter Discoveries this time, but after a bit of encouragement from my best writing pal, I figured I had nothing to lose so I entered at the eleventh hour - and I’m so glad I did!

You can read the announcement from the Women’s Prize here, and the shortlist and winner will be announced later this month.