We welcome the finalists of Eyelands Book Awards 2023
For the sixth consecutive year, we are very glad to announce the finalists and – as always – feel sorry that many well-written books could not be included in the shortlist. The number of finalists is defined according to the submissions in the specific category so, as we do every year, there are seven finalists in the novels categories. The writers’ place of residence is noted when provided by the writers themselves. Congratulations to all, many thanks for sharing all the fine books and for your support for yet another year. In a few days we will welcome in Greece the two grand prize winners in our awards ceremony of 2022! Hope see some of you next year in Athens!! Good luck to all!
NOVEL UNPUBLISHED
Heaven Drove – Vivian Oleander
Killing Zeus – Irene Fenn
Seasons of Four Faces – Benjamin Kwakye
Do You Want This Life? – Thomas Gordon Reynolds
Canada
Paradisos – Bill Kokkaris
Australia
Until the End – Dane Diamond
Sunshine – Tashi Chaturvedi
NOVEL PUBLISHED
Fire on the Island -Timothy Jay Smith
France
The Folly at Raighvan Park – Judith Crow
Scotland
Funeral by Daisuke Shen and Vi Khi Nao
From The Village Of Lucca, – JP Roarke
The Vanishing Sky – L. Annette Binder
Dis-Affected – Lew Passmore
United Kingdom
Bed Table floor – Csilla Toldy
Northern Ireland
POETRY UNPUBLISHED
Waiting for Godot In the Blue Corolla – Jennifer M Phillips
USA
Telling – Mary Paulson
USA
Caesura – Nancy Burke
USA
Arbor Vitae – Maureen Alsop
My Favourite Colour Is You – Cheyenne Macrides
United Kingdom
POETRY PUBLISHED
Anamnesis – Denise O’Hagan
Australia
The Nameless – Brandi George
Tourist- TAK Erzinger
Switzerland
The World is Our Anchor – Emma Wynn
USA
Amiss – Gina Ferrara
USA
HISTORICAL FICTION / MEMOIR UNPUBLISHED
Footbridge to Sunset – Oma Stanescu
26.2″ – Amy Cleven
The coffee lovers, Memoirs of a Communist Princess
– Ilinda Brunner
Antediluvian Quest – Peter Hankins
United Kingdom
Finding Strength In Scars: How Things That Break Us Make Us Stronger – Rachel McNair
USA
HISTORICAL FICTION / MEMOIR – PUBLISHED
The New Empire – Alison McBain
Canada
Magda, Standing – Christine Fallert Kessides
USA
The House Filler – Tong Ge
Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops – Allison Hong Merrill
Ships in the Desert -Jeff Fearnside
USA
SHORT STORIES UNPUBLISHED
There is no death in finding Nemo – Jeffrey M. Feingold –
United Kingdom
The House of Genyo and other stories – Terry Watada
Canada
Aegina Tales – Alexander Matheou
Machinations of the Heart and other Stories – Anna Mantzaris
USA
The Weather house – D.R. Hill
United Kingdom
SHORT STORIES PUBLISHED
Conquered by Fog -Fabiana Elisa Martínez
USA
A Perfect Day to Die – Yoko Morgenstern
Canada / Germany
The Peculiarities of Yearning – Stephanie Carty
United Kingdom
Set a Crow to Catch a Crow – Mary-Jane Holmes
United Kingdom
Attention Seekers – Emma Brankin
United Kingdom
CHILDREN BOOKS UNPUBLISHED
Above and Beyond – Adrian Lynch
England,
Letter of hope – Iryna Polishchuk
Ukraine
Comanche & Djinn VS Grown-ups – Maziar Lahooti
Australia
How the Children of Chernobyl and Their Alien Friend Saved the Planet Earth – Ilinda Stefanova Brunner
Australia
The Grandmaster’s Sword – Karin Bachmann
Switzerland
CHILDREN BOOKS PUBLISHED
My name is Cinnamon – Vikas Prakash Joshi
India
The Girl in the Water-Joseph Howse
Canada
The Magic of Believing – Diane Dowsing Robison
Igloo – Jennifer Burkinshaw
Leave No Footprints – Judith Brulo
United Kingdom
Next stop : prize winners on 30th of December!
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