Set in Croydon, South London, Dean McBride by Sonya Hale is a vivid
and poetic story of deprivation, loss and redemption through love, which
tells the story of Dean, a young man hardened by suffering, who
struggles in life before finding his way back to happiness.
A university professor is caught in a storm when an image of her in a
changing room is shared online. Exploring how images of women are
represented in art and social media, Annie Fox's Woman Caught Unaware
is a searing examination of the culture of body-shaming.
Depicting a teenage girl's solo journey to the North Pole with her
father's ashes, A Hundred Words for Snow by Tatty Hennessy is a
complex, epic and undulating story that pitches themes of death and
rebirth against a shifting backdrop of climate change, exploration and
the uncertain geography of the North.
This collection includes a foreword from actor and playwright Lolita
Chakrabarti, one of the judges of the competition, which was organized
by Heretic Productions.