Thanks, Melissa! And congratulations on your listing too!!

Melissa Bergum@writingbubbly.bsky.social · 2y ago

Congratulations @gavin-crippin.bsky.social as well as all the short-listees!

Oh neat! Congrats! (What was the opening?)

Genuinely made up with this. Congratulations to all the other entrants, thanks to the readers, judges and Kim and the team for organising. What a day!

Searchlight Awards@writingawards.bsky.social · 2y ago

Huge congratulations to the winner of Best Novel Opening 2024 - @gavin-crippin.bsky.social . ⭐️🥳🍾 Our literary agent judge Rachel Petty of The Blair Partnership admired Gavin’s ‘sparkly dialogue and authentic-feeling voice’. Our readers loved the voice, too!

Well done Gavin 🎉🎉🎉

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Time to start again then.