SHORTLISTS: 2025 WriteMentor Novel and Picture Book Awards
Here are the shortlisted titles for the 2025 WriteMentor Novel and Picture Book Awards – congratulations to all the authors on here. And good luck with the agent judges in the final round!
A special mention to those who made the longlist and did not make the shortlist – that’s a tough place to be, and it’s sometimes worse than missing out at any other stage. But well done on getting as far as you did.
Also a huge thanks to our team of readers, without whom the award literally could not run:
Emily Randall-Jones, Emma Finlayson-Palmer, Philip Kavvadias, Kathryn Clark, Julie Marney Leigh, Meredith Vigh, Priscilla Mante, Donna David, Polly Owen, Fiona Barker, Clare Welsh, Alexandra Page, Kat Foxfield, Sue Cunningham, Melissa Welliver
And without further ado, here are the listed titles (judged anonymously):
Picture Book
| Show-stoppa-stounding! |
| HULLABALOO AT THE PETTING ZOO |
| Hungry Spider |
| SUGAR FOOT AND THE PEACH PARTY |
| The Outrageous Wedding Problem |
| Don’t Worry Little Eggs |
| Even More Beautiful |
| Little Fairy Tailor |
| Stick Run |
| KING BLING |
| Pelican’s Beach |
Children’s and YA (incl CB, MG and YA)
| Spike Hart and The Lost Souls in School Scares |
| Summer at Robo Sphere |
| The Nighthawk Detectives |
| Code in the Castle |
| I Still Stand |
| Illy Blue, Who Are You? |
| Lightfoot and Mole |
| Marty Hearst’s Multi-Hearse |
| The Island of Unfortunate Geniuses |
| Eat My Goal! |
| Princess of the Moon |
Adult
| Runner Girl |
| The Theory of Love and Loss |
| The Tofana Daughter |
| Unmeant |
| Dig Two Graves … |
| The Debatable Lands |
| The Edit |
| Valour |
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