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LATEST NEWS! Click on the above green buttons for each of the individual categories to see Long List Results.
The Short List Results will be published on this page on 1st September 2025.
The Winners in each category will be published on this page on 30th September 2025.
This year the writing was such a high standard. As well as your brilliant achievement being published, the YCAA has helped eight young people with bursaries for studying the arts.
| KAREN STOREY | Accidents of the Heart |
| LIZ MAUDSLAY | Aftermath |
| NATHALIE WAGNER | All the Pages We Can't Rewrite |
| JANE BITOMSKY | An Inquest of Angels |
| IAN HART | An Occurrence at Kerosene Creek |
| LOFTUS BROWN | Bahadur is my Name |
| VICKIE FANG | Betrayal |
| A J DAVAGE | Between Us Three And The Sea |
| STEPHEN BRIDGER | Burning Silence |
| SUE LEE | Child Of The Northern Lights |
| DAVE POTTER | Dead to the world |
| JAMES HAMILTON | Dynamite |
| ANTONIA GOH | Five of Diamonds |
| ALEXSANDRA KOUTNY | Forest On The Edge |
| ALI NICHOLSON | Girl in Crossfire |
| ELLIE WILSON | Here |
| TONY IRVIN | Hope is the Thing with Feathers |
| GILL JONES | Horizons |
| HELEN IRVING | Hotel Elizabeth |
| KATE GILLHESPY | I will mend you with gold |
| STEVE MANLEY | Itchy Windows |
| RUDY FERNANDEZ | Murder And Other Family Obligations |
| JANE WADE | Shadow's Land |
| DAVEY SULLIVAN | Tarmac |
| CAROLINE DAVIES | The Accidental Agony Aunt |
| DAVE POTTER | The Art of Deception |
| NATASHA PRESKEY | The Clinic |
| DAVID EMERY | The Deprivation of Liberty |
| BRENDA DAVIES | The Devil's Uniform |
| LAUREN NEELY | The King's Wife |
| ALISON WOOD | The Last Days of Elise |
| MARGARET FRY | The Levantine Girl |
| TRACY SAND | The Meaning of Eli |
| STEPHANIE THOMASON | The Pantheon Trials |
| RACHAEL SPAVINS | The Sacrifice |
| MIKE MURRAY | This Is Not A Crime Story |
| OLEKSANDR TEN | Tim and Lightning |
| HJ HILO | Who Lies in the Woods |
| A Difficult Birth | Bethany Wren |
| A Guttering Candle | Dianne Bown-Wilson |
| A Second Chance | Jocelyn Stacey |
| All The Things I've Never Done | Jaime Gill |
| Esther The Traveller | Ewart Hutton |
| Giles and the alien at his door | Daniel George |
| Harold’s Breakdown | Kevin MacAlan |
| Just a janitor | Ramona Scarborough |
| Marco and Simone | Sophie Blackman |
| Michel's Smile | John Marston |
| Pinching Didn't Help | Mary Whelan |
| Railway Journey | Caroline Wallis-Newport |
| Some people | Kinga Eysturland |
| Talking Trees | Nathalie Wagner |
| The Bothy | Jenny Devitt |
| The Flowers | Lesley Tilling |
| The Last Sunset | Andy Sykes |
| The Party | Lucy Chambers |
| The Thing That Happened Last Wednesday Night | Jane Rocot |
| Three Sisters | Stella Waller |
| A bit of change | David Short |
| A Murmuration | Marisia Kucharski |
| Calanques | Scott Friedrich Jung |
| Clearance | Nicholas Cox |
| Echolalia with grief, primordial fog, and a lighthouse | Rachael Hill |
| Gleɪsiər | Scott Friedrich Jung |
| Holding Hands in the Absence of Parachutes | Jonathan Greenhause |
| How does the dog know where to sit? | A J Davage |
| Hungry Hill | Christopher M James |
| Look up | Sharon Black |
| New Year wish | Gill Oliver |
| Plume Moth | Suzanna Fitzpatrick |
| Poetry Makes Nothing Happen | Neal Mason |
| Red Admiral | Kate Lee |
| Romance | Ann Westgarth |
| Self Portrait | Penny Williams |
| She Doesn't Remember | Barry Childs |
| Snow scene in the garden of a Daimyo | Norman Franke |
| Temple Gathering Kampala Uganda October, 1972 | Andrea Lucy-Hirst |
| The Archive of Lost Voices | Hang Kuang Sang |
| The Heron | Elizabeth Wilson |
| The Rudston Monolith at All Saints Church | Alison Stark |
| Where the River Un-writes Its Name | Andrew Duxbury |
| Wild geese | J.D. Sparkes |
| Ynys Enlli | Grania Read |
| Elita Moon and the Lesson of Twelve | Sara Spence |
| Four Seasons at Seagate | Rebecca Dettman |
| In the blink of an eye | Steven Harris |
| Lawless & Order | Danielle Cerin |
| Lightfoot and Mole | Rachel Kenefick |
| Mermaid Porridge | Kesty Morrison |
| Nuria and the Butterfly | Kinga Eysturland |
| Rosie Goes to Whitechapel | Alison Knight |
| Sean and the Spag Bol Misadventure | Souzan Alcorn |
| Somewhen | Laura Haywood |
| Storymania | Ian Brooks |
| The Dream Stealer | Shiv Saywack |
| The Dream-Travellers | Claire Lewis |
| The Groucher | Claire Lewis |
| The Higher You Climb | Laura Haywood |
| The Monster at Elizabeth Lake | PB Rippey |
| The Super Powers | Caroline Mundy |
| Tim and Lightning | Oleksandr Ten |
| OTHER NATURE: A RUNNER’S THOUGHTS | Sharon Pinner |
| BLACK BANANAS | Susan Wilsea |
| A CHUGGER AT THE DOOR | Kathryn Crowley |
| WHY A GRANDMOTHER THINKS OF HER GRANDDAUGHTER AS A BUTTERHEAD LETTUCE | Ruth Edwardson |
| CENTERING | Sian Meades |
| HEADING FOR THE BUFFERS | John Morrison |
| ONCE ON A WINTER’S NIGHT | Brian Chapman |
| SNOW ANGEL | Celeste Harvey |
| HOW TO FOLD A FITTED SHEET | Susan Wilsea |
| MEMORIES | Tony Irvin |
| DARTS FROM THE PAST | Nicholas Watts |
| THE LAST THREAD | Andrew Duxbury |
| THE COURTSHIP OF A DOODLEBUG | Joanna Miller |
| DIARY ENTRY 19TH OCTOBER 2023 | Melanie Jane Smallwood |
| FADING | Melanie Jane Smallwood |
| GIVE AND TAKE | Joanna Cross |
| BLACKBIRD WRITING THE RULES | Eleanor Smith |
| HEADSCARF | J.D. Sparkes |
| A MOTHER SCORNED | Vicki Feltham |
| ELEGY FOR ROCKS GREEN FARM | Grania Read |
| ARIEL | Grania Read |