Twelve stories selected from 1,134 entries to the 2020 competition. ‘Full of verve, emotional enquiry and imagination.’ Harriet Moore ‘I really appreciate the range and ambition on display in these stories. These are writers putting work into voice and craft rather than relying on event alone, and that’s what makes their work persist in the mind.’ Chris Power ‘An illuminating and vivid range of stories from an exciting array of new voices already so accomplished in their craft.’ Sharmaine Lovegrove
Authors
Alice Haworth-Booth is a London-based freelance graphic designer who works mainly for third-sector organisations. Both Alice and her sister, children's author and graphic novelist Emily Haworth-Booth are activists with Extinction Rebellion. Protest! is her first book.
I started my career on The Observer and The Guardian and worked as a reporter and features writer across consumer news, news and the life and style sections before going freelance to write my first book, In Spite of Oceans, published in 2014 by The History Press. In Spite of Oceans received the John C. Laurence Award from The Authors’ Foundation. In 2021, I saw two books published: How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures (January, 2021), with Elliott & Thompson, and my debut short story collection, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love (November 2021), with Sceptre. Sceptre will also be publishing my debut novel, which I am currently writing. My essay, By Instinct, appears in The Best Most Awful Job: Twenty Writers Talk Honestly About Motherhood (2019). I am represented by Laurie Robertson at Peters, Fraser + Dunlop.
