Eyelands Book Awards 2025-Finalists!

Dear friends here we are with the finalists of our 8th contest.  We are very glad to announce them (more submissions more categories, more finalists) but also have (more than ever) this inconvenient feeling as so 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, this is the reason why there are more finalists in the novels than the children’s books categories.

This year we had to launch three new categories and even divide historical novels from memoirs!  

Here you can see finalists of all categories and the place of their residence. We are happy to mention that this year there were submissions from 33 different countries from all over the world.

Judges for this years’ contest are P.H.C. Marchesi (Children’s books/graphic novels), Andriana Minou (Poetry, LGBTQIA+ Self-published books), Barbara Black (Short stories) Gregory Papadoyiannis ((Novels, Scifi, Thriller,) Katherine Wiseman (Historical novel-Memoir).

Congratulations to all, many thanks for sharing all these fine books. Prize winners to be announced as always on December 30, 2025. Good luck to all!

NOVELS PUBLISHED

Fire on the Island – Timothy Jay Smith

France

The Body In Zeller’s Barn – Arian Harandi

USA

 More Lies – Richard James Allen

Australia

Play me! – Charles Harris

United Kingdom

Once Upon a Tarot Card – Jaelen Davis

United Kingdom

Foreign Attachments – Roslyn McFarland

Australia

Pins, Pains and Promises –  Dr Manisha T Kundnani

India

Making A Moveable Feast – Paul W. B. Marsden

 Wales

NOVELS UNPUBLISHED

Kingdom of Slaves – Mahboobeh Zare 

IRAN

Gandhi Colony – Vikram Kapur

India

Cleanse Me with Pleasure – Aleksandra Binkowska

Poland

The Art of Surviving in a Glass of Water – Raluca Comanelea

USA

Sette: A Novel – Oyéshiku Carr

USA

The Best of All Worlds – Ofir Oz

Israel

The Father is Absent – Diamond Keener

USA

SHORT STORY PUBLISHED

A Fine Madness and Other Mad Stories – Jeffrey M. Feingold

USA

Tena tyaktena bhunjitha – Neha Srivastava

India

Tamiami trail – Jennifer Bannan

USA

The Eunuch’s Daughter & Stories – Khanh Ha

USA

The Planet Spins On Its Axis, Regardless – Kavita A. Jindal

 U.S.A.

Beneath a Darkening Sky – Judith Crow

Scotland

So Many Shapes and Sizes: Stories (Small, Medium, and Large) – John Sheirer

USA

SHORT STORY UNPUBLISHED

The Noisy Quietude of Mikhail Gorky and other stories-  Ken Pisani

USA

The House of Genyo and other stories – Terry Watada

Canada 

Life Lines (and Other Stories) – Dreena Collins

Channel Islands

Title: The man without a shadow  –  Gjore Gjelev

N.Macedonia

The Defect of Existing – Fabiana Elisa Martínez

USA

I Can See It in Your Eyes – Javier R. Abella

USA

At Sea – Charlotte Beck

Canada

HISTORICAL PUBLISHED

The Fastest Girl on Earth – Lisa Brace

United Kingdom

Beyond the black gate  – Mark  JF Hudson

United Kingdom

Cerca Trova – Tamer Ramadan

Egypt

A Noble cunning: the countess and the tower – Patricia Bernstein

USA

The Death Of Us All – Gregg Brandalise

USA

HISTORICAL UNPUBLISHED

A Funny Thing (about Old Man Drought) – Steve Hawe

Australia

The Pinioned Bird  – Tong Ge

Canada

The Grand Master – Randal Moore

USA

 Love is for the Brave –  Sophie Neville

United Kingdom

The Other Life of Mary English – GD Harper

United Kingdom

CHILDREN’S PUBLSHED

Life Lessons and Tales of Little MisFit (Book 3)-Susan Krup Grunin

Mulberry Seeds~A Novella: Stories of Youth and Innocence –  Lisa-Behrens Smith,

USA

Loukas & Lydia and the Secret of the Disk –  A.F. Helios

USA

Pandora’s Choice   Subtitle: The Oracle Must Be Obeyed – E.A. Dickinson

U.S.A

Ordell’s Constellation  – J. C. Cole

U.S.A

CHILDREN’S UNPUBLSHED

Flora’s Flock and Other Stories to Read Aloud – Mike Mesterton-Gibbons

United Kingdom

Starfish and Tide: A Journey Through Grief Toward Light – Dinah Gay-Dorviul

U.S.A

DJ Kramer – Pod 31

U.S.A

Coco in the Land of the Heart – Toru Matsumoto

Japan

Pinkurella și Spotless: The Tale of an Unusual Friendship – Gabriela Dimache

United Kingdom

POETRY PUBLISHED

Exits – Stephen C. Pollock

U.S.A.

Barefoot Poetess – Paris Rosemont

Australia

The Gift of Self – Vandana Bhasin

India

What Trammels the Heart – Kelly Fordon

U.S.A.

Seang (Hungering) – Anne Casey

Australia.

 Just Give Me The Pills – Koraly Dimitriadis

Australia

Map of the Self – Mona Dash

United Kingdom

Eject city –  Jason L Morphew

USA

POETRY UNPUBLISHED

My Soul to Keep – Steven Bucher

USA

Edges of Unease –  Jane Bower

United Kingdom

Journey to the iron gate –  Stamatia (Matina) Tsalouma

Greece

More or Less, and other poems – Craig Matheson 

 Canada

Ducks in Arizona -Nellie English

United Kingdom

SCI-FI/THRILLER/CRIME PUBLISHED

Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF diversion) – Bolat Ospanov

Kazakhstan

Dive beyond eternity – Valeriya Salt

United Kingdom

Dirty Deeds – Deborah Shlian and Linda Reid

USA

Chaos Theory – Sylvia Leatham

Ireland

The Bright Highway – Nick Crawford

USA

Last of the autumn rain –  Diana Louise Webb

USA

SCI-FI/THRILLER/CRIME UNPUBLISHED

Innocent Until – Jagdish Acharya

India

Erased – Mihai Stet

 United Kingdom

Thanks for Meeting Me Here – Jillisa Bronfman

USA

The Secret Lives of the Doyenne of Didsbrook – Tessa Barrie

USA

A Sweet and Faithful Lullaby… – Amichai Kolberg

Philippines

LGBTQIA+

Adjacent – Asia Ali

United Kingdom

Empty water – Ksenia Smirnova

Russian Federation.

Before We Became Men – Osman Njai

USA

Swimming in words – Luke Icarus SIMON

Australia

Open your eyes -Elizabeth Hohenberg

United Kingdom

MEMOIR

The Illogical Adventure : A Memoir of Love and Fate – James MacDuff and Mirriam Mweemba

Canada

Child of Earth and Starry Heaven – L. Annette Binder

LIFE: Plexus of emotions  – Dr Sohail Shali

India

Breakfast Wine -Alex Poppe

USA

Memoirs of a Woman SURVIVOR from the First Year OF the Holocaust in Gaza –  Njoud Ghassan Salem

Palestine

Frickin Short Life – Khawar Salim

Pakistan

Amid the Alien corn: A Son’s memoir – Dennis Walde

United Kingdom

The Nutcracker Chronicles: A Fairytale Memoir –Janine Kovac

USA

SELF PUBLISHED

Delphi – Karen Martin

Australia

Sunshine – Tashi Chaturvedi

India

The A-Word – Alyssa Murray

USA

Wonderland – Max Eidelman

USA

When the Past Awakens – Helena Kidd

Australia

Baking Secrets & Otherworldly Mysteries – Daisy Hans-Burrell

USA

FINALISTS FOR U20 DISTINCTION

Karma – Sidney Garrett

The mystery of Tate Buchen – Omoyeni Hamid

Nigeria

Murder by the page – Faith Bisong

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