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We're very excited about these great responses to our non-fiction 20/40 Prize winner for this year, Kim Kelly's Touched. Thank you to the reviewers!

Wonderful comments about Angus Gaunt's Anna, our fiction 20/40 Prize winner for this year — thank you to the reviewers!

Submissions are now open for the 20/40 Publishing Prize of 2026. Fiction, non-fiction, or hybrid works between 20,000 and 40,000 are welcome — we're looking forward to seeing the next set of entries and to bringing two new books into the world again next year!

Congratulations to the winning authors of the 20/40 Prize for 2025, Angus Gaunt and Kim Kelly. We are delighted to bring these two new books to our readers. You can get them now from our online store! #prizewinners #literaryprize #australianwriters

We’re delighted to congratulate the writers of these four engaging entries that make up the 20/40 Publishing Prize Shortlist for 2025. Which of these works will be this year’s Winners? You’ll find out on Oct 11! #shortlist #literaryprize

‘a highly engaging, short-form memoir…’ Compulsive Reader reviews Sonya Voumard’s ‘Tremor’. compulsivereader.com/2024/12/05/a-r… Get this ‘thought-provoking’ memoir now from our online store!

Submissions for the 20/40 Prize of 2025 are now open, closing January 31st. Winning entries go through an engaged editing process and are brought into the world as beautifully designed books. Learn more here: finlaylloyd.com/20-40/

‘This may be the best book I’ve read this year’ - Jack Marx on The Thirty-One Legs of Vladimir Putin. Get this ‘terrific story’ right here: finlaylloyd.com/product/the-th…

Thank you to @sally_pryor for launching our 20/40 Winning Books on Saturday at Harry Hartog in Canberra and to everyone who came to celebrate! Our second launch in Sydney is coming up this Thursday - see you there!

Tremor Sonya Voumard 20/40 Publishing Prize Nonfiction Winner for 2024 Get the book here! finlaylloyd.com/product/tremor…

The Thirty-One Legs of Vladimir Putin PS Cottier & NG Hartland 20/40 Publishing Prize Fiction Winner for 2024 Get the book here! finlaylloyd.com/produ…

Congratulations to the winning authors of the 20/40 Prize for 2024. @HartlandNick @SonyaVoumard We are delighted to bring these two very different but intriguingly complementary winning books to our readers. Now available from our online store.

We’re delighted to announce the 20/40 Publishing Prize Shortlist for 2024. Congratulations to the writers of these diverse works. Which of these works will be this year’s Winners? You’ll find out on Oct 26. @SonyaVoumard @HartlandNick @suesaliba

Announcing the 20/40 Publishing Prize Shortlist for 2023. Congratulations to the authors! The two Winning Books will be announced October 28. #literaryprize #shortlisted #novella

5 days until submissions close for the 20/40 Publishing Prize - submit your entries by Feb 10! finlaylloyd.com/20-40/

Entries are open for the 20/40 Publishing prize until February 10. Be it a work of fiction, non-fiction or some form of hybrid, if it’s between 20,000 and 40,000 words, it’s eligible for the prize. Submit your entry here: finlaylloyd.com/20-40/

Entries are now open for the 20/40 Publishing Prize! — a new independent prize for fiction and non-fiction works between 20,000 and 40,000 words. Entries close Feb 10. Submit an entry here: finlaylloyd.com/20-40/

Attn writers! Publishers Finlay Lloyd announce the 20/40 Prize, a new prize for fiction + non-fiction of 20-40,000 words. Entries open 1 Jan 2023, w two winners to be published Nov. Details: buff.ly/3O1ditB @FL_Publishing #WritingCommunity #writingprize #opportunities

Very excited to be able to share a new Australian manuscript award, the 20/40 Publishing Prize, for fiction and non-fiction between 20,000 and 40,000 words. Winners published by Finlay Lloyd. Entries open 1 January, 2023. Please share! finlaylloyd.com/.20-40/

Finlay Lloyd has established a new prize to encourage writing in an environment where it is increasingly difficult to find an audience. 20/40 offers a publishing opportunity for fiction and non-fiction prose works between 20,000 and 40,000 words. finlaylloyd.com/20-40/