Shortlist and Longlist 2015

Our 2015 Selections for Broadcast

Flour Baby by Lisa Anne Craig

Mussels by Sue Healy

Pieces of Mars Have Fallen To Earth by Cherise Saywell

The selected authors will be invited to attend the recording of their stories in June and the broadcasts take place on the 2nd, 9th and 16th of August on Radio 4.

The Opening Lines 2015 Shortlist

Brother's Keeper by Christopher Gibson

Flour Baby by Lisa Anne Craig

I’ll Take The Aston by Lee Hamblin

Mirror, Mirror by Penelope Jane Randall

Mussels by Sue Healy

One Sunday Morning in May 1971 by Valda Jackson

Pieces of Mars Have Fallen To Earth by Cherise Saywell

Pigeons by Kate Swindlehurst

The Lapstrake Crossing by Kate Rhodes

Udon Lover by Elaine Peckleng Chiew

The final three selections will be announced on Wednesday 3rd of June at midday on this website.

The 2015 Longlist

67° North by Emma Zetterstrom

A Time to Leave by Sylvia Hehir

Abandon Ship by Jane Robertson

Anomaly by Anne Wilkins

Backtrack by Richard Newton

Brother’s Keeper by Christopher Gibson

Elizabeth by Alexandra Reza

Flour Baby by Lisa Anne Craig

Granny Can Fly by Romy Wood

I’ll Take the Aston by Lee Hamblin

Mark and Tracy by Charles Bauer

Mirror, Mirror by Penelope Randall

Murmuration by Chris Pritchard

Mussels by Sue Healy

One Sunday Morning by Valda Jackson

Pieces of Mars Have Fallen To Earth by Cherise Saywell

Pigeons by Kate Swindlehurst

The Boxer by Stuart Turton

The Lamb’s Jacket by Sarah Reynolds

The Lapstrake Crossing by Kate Rhodes

The Last Days of the Minotaur by Sophie Green

The Orphan Son by Mike Poole

Udon Lover by Elaine Chiew

Within by Gareth Smith

Wolf by Xanthe Hall