The Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize for YA | MG Category Shortlist, 2024
We thank everyone who entrusted us with their submission to the Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize contest for the 2024 YA | MG 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 shortlist, with no author names attached (as blind judging is ongoing):
Finalists:
Little Mice
Wolfpack
Tobin and Blake
Zoolooshuns
The Last Picture Book
Blue Ice-cream
Semi-finalists:
A Guide to Love, Time, and Archery
The Stoners
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.
