FINALISTS

Top Tier Finalists

Josephine Queen (Alternative History and Fantasy)

Deidra Whitt Lovegren (Dystopian and Romance)

Roxanne Kubiak (Urban and Fairy Tale)

Aglibut Bagaoisan (Western and Horror)

Katrina Moinet (Urban and Fairy Tale)

Alysse Stephens (Western and Horror)

B. Dance (Dystopian and Romance)

Jay McKenzie (Dystopian and Romance)

M. S. Nazario (Urban and Fairy Tale)

Caroline Ashley (Urban and Fairy Tale)

Other Finalists:

Alternative History and Fantasy

Aubrey Walker, Harry Taverner, James Fritz, Natalie Clark, Cathryn Moore.

Isekai and Crime

Robert Burns, Teresa Curry, Claire Louise Marsh.

Western and Horror

James Hancock, Sam James, Paul Lewthwaite, Scott Fisher, Daniel O'Neill Jr, Sean Thomas McDonnell, Molly Wadkins, Irene Ressa, Troy Hoggart, Malcolm Woodstock, Molly Geater Milton, Steve Patmore, Rowan Evans, Martin Tulton, Connor Donahue, SZ Shao, Sonny Turner, Liv DeSimone, Jordan McClymont, Val Roberts, Charlie Williamson, Diana Davison, Geoffrey K. Graves.

Regency and Thriller

Zara Maharani Khalisha Ariana.

Dystopian and Romance

Raeesah Chandlay, J. L. Kies, Molly Blunden, Andrew Ball, Claire Iolanda Roberts, Morgan Baker, Alwynn Snow, Wendy Markel, Angela Dawe, Dorrell Merritt, Emily Elledge, Lianne Warr, Amanda M Grant, Erja Taskinen, Frances Hodgson, Trisha Simone.

Urban and Fairy Tale

Alicia Paleno, Aurelia Octa Gunawan, Sarah Turner, Helen Curran, Trina High, Maria Achihaitei, Esther Lee Deitch, A.A. Long, Laura Varney, Joel O'Flaherty, Mark Grant, Malcolm Todd, Maggie Pavlik, Jane Bryenton, W.P. Herbert, Ariana Townsend, Sandhya Barlaas.