To give you an idea of how difficult the judges found making their selection, an astonishing 2171 entries were received across all genres and broken down as follows:

I Am Writing Action/Adventure Competition - Entries received: 51
I Am Writing Chapter Book (including Graphic Novels) Competition - Entries received: 87
I Am Writing Cosy Crime Competition - Entries received: 68
I Am Writing Crime/Thriller Competition - Entries received: 136
I Am Writing Historical Competition - Entries received: 151
I Am Writing Horror Competition - Entries received: 83
I Am Writing Literary/Upmarket Fiction Competition - Entries received: 255
I Am Writing Middle Grade Competition - Entries received: 223
I Am Writing Picture Books Competition - Entries received: 595 (Some of the 595 entries contained 2 picture books)
I Am Writing Romance Competition - Entries received: 153
I Am Writing Sci-Fi / Fantasy Competition - Entries received: 203
I Am Writing Teen, YA, NA Competition - Entries received: 166


Sponsored Entries

We are extremely grateful to all of the lovely people who sponsored one or multiple entries. This really does help keep these competitions accessible to those who otherwise would not be able to enter.

74 free of charge places were donated by I Am In Print
21 50% discounted places were donated by I Am In Print

The wonderful writing community donated an additional 12 places making a grand total of 107 writers who were granted discounted or free of charge entry into a genre of their choice.

Thank you to everyone who sponsored a place!

Well done to all who entered!

With this record number of entries we want to express another huge well done to each and every writer who entered. It will be disappointment for some, and elation for others, but, however you fared, we want you to feel proud of the fact that you wrote your story down and entered it for professionals to read.

We have received some lovely messages from the judges saying how much they enjoyed reading your submissions and each agreed the standard was incredibly high this year. Several had extreme difficulty in picking their top three and some of the Highly Commended only narrowly missed out.

But we now have the news you have all been waiting for...