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New Writers Awards 2026 Shortlist
The New Writers Awards 2026 panels have shortlisted the following people, and wish to commend them for the high standards of their applications
Fiction and narrative non-fiction
- CL Glanzing
- Samantha Pyrah
Poetry
- Gabriel Levine Brislin
- Alyson Kissner
- Zain Rishi
Children's and YA
- Hannah Ekekwe
- Lesley-Anne Johnston
- Jacqueline Thompson-Tadrowski
Spoken word
- Cat Boyd-Foley
- Titana Muthui