Established in 2013, the Bath Novel Award is an international prize for emerging novelists writing for adults and young adults.
We are delighted to announce 2021’s longlist.
With 2,084 manuscripts submitted between 1st December 2020 and 31st May, 2021 has proved our most competitive year to date. Novels were submitted from writers in 52 countries and longlistees are based in Australia, Norway, Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, the UK and USA. This year’s list is 31 novels strong and includes commerical, crime, dystopian, fantasy, historical, horror, literary, psychological thrillers, thrillers, uplit as well as YA manuscripts.
As submissions are read “blind” we’ll be keeping author names under wraps until 2021 judge, Julia Silk of Charlie Campbell Literary Agents announces the winning novel in September. The shortlist will be announced at noon BST on July 31st.
In the meantime, many congratulations to the writers of these 31 standout titles:
| Another Kind of Life |
| Call Me Suzy |
| Change is a Coming |
| Dominoes |
| Don't Call Us Dreamers |
| Everything is Uneven |
| Ghost Time |
| Here Lies Guido Perkins |
| Hiddenland |
| Hiraeth |
| It's Not Like This in Teen Movies |
| Lumi |
| Meet Me At The Surface |
| Something of a Hoax |
| Stolen Threads |
| Submerged |
| The Bath Circulating Library Society |
| The Confinement of Ada Atwood |
| The Covent Garden Mermaids |
| The Killing Tide |
| The Last Girl in Skegness |
| The Ledger of Abandoned Stories |
| The Norfolk House |
| The Pool |
| The Secret Collector of Bartholomew Row |
| Touching Doctor Simone |
| Undying |
| We Across The Shining Sea |
| Wild Garlic |
| Wonder Ocean |
| You Can't Be Both |
The Bath Novel Award 2021 is sponsored by
