2024 Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize for Adult Category Longlist

The Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize for Adult category longlist, 2024

We thank everyone who entrusted us with their submission to the Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize contest for the 2024 Adult category.

Submissions for this category were up this year and deliberating was no easy task with so many imaginative manuscripts to consider this year.

We are happy to announce the following longlist, with no author names attached (as blind judging is ongoing):

1. Outcast
2. Man Staring at Water
3. Idios – A Comic Tale of Nightmares
4. The Dieter
5. Live at the Scene
6. The Storyteller & the Gentleman Gangster
7. The Invitation
8. My Affair with Anna Freud
9. Magic Boy
10. The Mexican Messiah and Other Stories
11. If Someone Must Pay, Take Me
12. Lovers
13. The Trio of Kiev
14. Cream City
15. Newman’s Choice
16. Oh If We Could Only Know
17. Topanga Ranch Motel
18. The Pilgrims

Shortlist coming soon!

The First Prize package includes a publication contract offer from Leapfrog Press (U.S.) and Can of Worms Press (U.K.) with an advance payment against royalties, a critique from our guest judge (to be announced), listing on the website of each press, and $150; finalists will receive the critique, website listing, and $150; semi-finalists will get their choice of a Leapfrog or Can of Worms book and website listings; honorable mentions will receive website listings.