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New Writers Awards 2025 Shortlist
The New Writers Awards 2025 panels have shortlisted the following people, and wish to commend them for the high standards of their applications
Fiction and narrative non-fiction
- Shona McCombes
- Leah Westcott Graham
Poetry
- Patrick Romero McCafferty
- Gabrielle Tse
- Han Mallek
Children's and YA
- Katrina Macapagal
- Parris Joyce
Scots
- Jace Bryan
- Craig Watson
Spoken word
- Tom Bird
- EmmaClaire Brightlyn