Celebrating the wide variety and range of talent of this year's longlist for the Island Prize.

The judges will now read through and announce the shortlist in early May, with the winner to be announced soon thereafter.

In the meantime, we will be sharing about the longlisted authors and their manuscripts here and we hope you will join us in celebrating them all!

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