'Makorongo’s War' by Sophie Neville has just won the 2019 Grand Prize in A Woman’s Write competition for best unpublished novel.
The judge wrote to say, 'This year’s
competition was especially difficult to judge, with many fine submissions from
all over the world.'
'Your book has been through several incarnations to its current, well organized and skillfully written state.'
'Your book has been through several incarnations to its current, well organized and skillfully written state.'
'Makorongo's War' is currently in the finals of the Eyelands Book Awards for an unpublished novel in the historical fiction category under the new title 'The Man Who Got Out of Japan'. The results will be published soon.
An earlier draft won the Athanatos novel writing contest and was long-listed in the Historical Novel Society's 2018 New Novel Award who noted it was 'told with charm and empathy... in a fresh and unexpected way.'
