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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 2026.
The Winners in each category will be published on this page on 30th September 2026.
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.
The Novel judge is Raffaella Barker
| Beth Wellington | A Place Beyond Words |
| Lawrence Wray | A Small Impossible Thing |
| Frances Donovan | ANGARRACK |
| Jason Collodi | Any One Life |
| Katharine Trigarszky | Codename Charlotta |
| Gill Jones | Cuckoo |
| Nicola Deeming | I'm Fine |
| Siddhartha Banerjee | Light, Dark Light |
| Penelope Marshall | Of Iron and Incense |
| Victoria Pearce | Refuge |
| Katie Valentine | Sillk |
| Chris Hyland | Small Flames |
| Zoe Dunkley | Sunrise on an Unlikely Safari |
| Maureen Cullen | Tapsalteerie |
| Stephanie Frank | TENDER PARTS |
| Hope Dickson Leach | The Dirty Work |
| Nicola Bayly | The Distant Castle |
| Lorna Mathew | The Fixer |
| Brenda Davies | The Impostor |
| Jason Mann | The Last Light |
| Margaret Fry | The Levantine Girl |
| Stanley Kenani | The loneliness of being right |
| Pam Keevil | The Love We Never Finished |
| Laura Geraghty | The Miles Between Us |
| Janine Yiannakis | The New Mrs Redmund |
| Katrina Tanzer | The Point of Wasps |
| Michael Clarke | The Swan |
| Marguerite Saunders | The Underdogs |
The Short Story judge is Rue Baldry
| Ian Gouge | A Kind of Selfie |
| Kevin Lymer | Besito in the West |
| Genet Davey | Between the Two |
| Timothy Collyer | Dead Air |
| Patrick O'Connor | Dinky |
| Jay Bulter | Dr |
| Li Ying (Iris) Chiu | Five Lights |
| Alan Hancock | Five Things I Know About Arab Men |
| Stephanie | Happy Birthday |
| Jane Ricot | How Can I Be Sure |
| Elizabeth F. Woodfield | Losing Innocence |
| Jane Madell | Nettled |
| Sam Goffin | One Percent |
| Jennifer Hand | Riptide |
| Tony Lee | River of Red |
| Maria Burke | The colour of beyond |
| Sharon Hier | The Colour of Harbour Lights |
| David Short | The journey home |
| Charlie Baudry | The Queue, The Queue |
| Alice Fowler | The Rainbow Shades of Change |
| Jude Painter | The Red Dodge |
| Peter Norbury | The Tree Of Hope |
| Jaime Gill | The Wild Ones |
| Jon Reburn | Tiger Hunt |
| Peter Newman | Velvet Claws |
| Andrew Duxbury | Waiting Bench |
| Sharon Hier | What the horse Remembers |
| Judith Wilson | What would Cecil Beaton do? |
| Andrei Romanov | Wiener Extra |
The Poetry judge is John Challis
| Dean Gessie | I loved you in all those rewilding places |
| HANG KUANG SANG | Kintsugi for the Cracked Hour |
| Suzanna Fitzpatrick | Antarctic Ice Bubbles |
| Alison Stark | Asylum |
| Andrea Lucy-HIrst | Covering Fire |
| Grania Read | CRINOID |
| Kevin MacAlan | Dan |
| Jane Talbot | Essex Girl |
| George Watley | Floorboards |
| Martin Levinson | Gerald |
| Carol Anderson | Glandore Dreaming |
| Gabriel Griffin | In the mouths of turtles |
| Peter Lockhart | Nineteen Seventy-Six |
| Charlotte Jones | Opus for a Lonely Heart |
| Sharon Black | Oranges |
| Ann Westgarth | Remembrance |
| Ashley MacLauchlan | Ripples |
| Edison Yap | Sand Castle |
| Julie Butler | THE BEAUTIFUL ENDURING SHADOW |
| Hillary Smith | Want |
The Children’s and Young Adult Novel judge is Julia Churchill
| Grania Read | A JOURNEY OF PIGEONS |
| Chris Morris | All of Our Most Precious Things |
| Serena Lacey-Brown | Buckley Gleam - The Worst Tooth Fairy in the World |
| Mike Mesterton-Gibbons | Flora's Flock and Other Stories to Read Aloud |
| Jon Tilley | Forbidden City |
| Rebekah Fieschi | Girmiore Torulbe |
| Olha Zbirnyk | Livvy & TROLL |
| Elizabeth Botsford | Operation Petrichor |
| Jennie Saywell | PELICAN VS. THE PARTY ANIMALS |
| Mel Berry | Pick Blue |
| Robin Scott-Elliot | Seek |
| Petra Glover | SIX, THEY SAID |
| Maxim Borchalinskiy | Stretching Shadows |
| Chris Ashton | The Criminologists and the School of Illegality |
| Wendy Osborne | The Devil's Eye |
| Sara Spence | The Jagger Jinks Logs |
| Annabel Johnson | The Peace Project |
| Tarasyn Hanna | The Queen & The Quill |
| Abigail Kikuchi | The Unloved |
| Souzan Alcorn | There are no giraffes at school? |
| Anna Trusty | Tinted |
| Serena Lacey-Brown | Wildsiders |
The Writing Without Restrictions judge is Steve Kay
| Darren Windibank | A Fall from Grace |
| Sarah-Jane Huelin | Advice From A Veteran Tree |
| Mauk Donnabhain | Beddgelert |
| Nuala Scott | Coercion |
| Helen Hooper | Commuter Wars |
| Wendy Breckon | Dear Great Grandma |
| Sharon Pinner | Dear Yellowhammer |
| Jane Ricot | Five Things About St Valentine’s Day You Might Like To Know |
| Vanessa Wright | Gold Charms and Cigarettes |
| Gabriel Griffin | ISOLA SAN GIULIO: METASTORY AND GUIDE |
| Nicholas Cox | Low Value Humans |
| Jon Robins | Minutes of the Extraordinary General Meeting of the Union of Punctuation |
| Jennifer Hunt | St Martin's, Isles of Scilly |
| Rebecca McFarland | SUBJECT: OPERATION FLUSH THEM OUT |
| Laura Besley | the end is the beginning is the end |
| Darren Windibank | The Innuendo Club |
| Gracie Adams | The Parrot Man |
| Will Starling | Tour Operator's Margin Scheme |
| Helen Hooper | Undying Love |
| Camila Currier | You Will Never Walk Alone |