Pitch It! Competition 2024 LONGLISTS

I’m saying it again this year – WOW! The quality of pitches continues to improve each year, not only being well-crafted and professionally written, but also hitting the brief perfectly in engagement, tone and originality. The range of topics, themes and concepts were so varied and interesting, and suitably geared towards their given target market. Publishers would certainly be impressed by these commercial standards! CONGRATULATIONS to everyone for your knock-out pitches in our 2024 Pitch It! Competition!

Our judges took on the enormous task of careful contemplation within their categories. HUGE appreciation goes to our highly experienced industry professionals. For our picture book and non-fiction picture book categories, Aleesah Darlison, Cassy Polimeni and Debra Tidball. For both the junior fiction and middle grade categories, Kate Gordon and David Lawrence. Thank you all xx

So, without further ado, here are the all-important LONGLISTS!

Congratulations to…

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Picture Book Category

Amorita – A. Toniolo

Ants Love to Dance – K. Andrews

Bring Your Pet to School – R. Grant

Carry It Harriet – J. Galatola

Dancing on the Grass – M. Hunter

Down Halloween Street – A. Kelly

Fall In! – A. Schmidt

Flea, A Tiny Tall Tale – S. Dalgleish

Go Confetti – A. Keir-Stanley

Help! I’m a Giant! – A. Jamae

How to Recharge a Rainbow – A. Keir-Stanley

In a Pickle – J. Lou

Koeksisters – A. Lenthall

My Dog was a Pirate – E. Thompson

Oliver and Dragon – S. Fraser

Roll Over, Rover – S. Dodd

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Velociraptor – S. Barton

The Baddies are Coming – J. Mullen

The King’s New Sound – B. Loveridge

The Odd Ones – M. Wilson

The Worry That Ate the Universe – J. Horn

What’s Mine is Yours – M. Postlethwaite

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Non-Fiction Picture Book Category

A House for the Pebble-mound Mouse – A. Toniolo

All a Tree Can Be – E. Pulsford

Aussie Firefighter Calendar – C. Pirrone

Baby Mealtime Adventures – E. Wybron

Colin’s Dream – B. Cullen

Compare the Pair – M. Gim

I Already Know the Alphabet – Aussie Plants – C. Pirrone

I Love My Awesome Body – T. L. Southey

Just the Right Size – B. Nanayakkara

Kiera, Vegemite and the Weeds – C. Pirrone

Many Ways to Say – J. Horn

Moon Song – S. Spray

Octopus Hunt – R. Curnow

Sarah and Sam’s Super Skating Summer – V. Marmaras

Slug Fest – Green Sea Sheep and other Cute Sluggy Ocean Creatures – C. Bauer

Stuart Squirrel – J. Catalano

Termitropolis, a City of Tiny Ecologists – L. Sutton

The A-Z of Aussie Schools – M. Gim

Turn Off the Lights – A. Toniolo

Why Did the Sleepy Lizard Cross the Road? – K. Murdock

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Junior Fiction Category

Arabella the Beakdancer – D. Williams

Archie the Rakali – A. Farrell

Bacon Tries Dancing – P. Grafton

Bee Girl – K. Tyrrell

Evan’s Animals – Chaos – M. Hunter

Food or Friend; An Alien’s Guide to Being Human #1 – S. Dalgleish

Framed – K. Wellham

Frankie and Tiny – Quest for the Invisiberry – J. Nilson

Half a Giraffe – J. Mullen

Iggy Erkelstine – Fictional Friend – M. Postlethwaite

Jed Ivan Knight Spy – K. Andrews

Mason McCluskey – D. Williams

Myra in the Middle – S. Dodd

Nellie Nipper- Dive Right In! – M. Postlethwaite

The Boy and the Bubble – J. Hurrell

The Invisibles – K. Tyrrell

The World According to Clementine Peach (The Super Special Party) – G. Bassett

They Who Paint Rainbows – E. Cary

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Middle Grade Category

Cooper and Noah A – V. Croker

Grow Up, Charlie Wiggins! – J. Horn

Lola Lucksford – K. Temple

Looking For Grandpa – E. Macintosh

Mackenzie Millar and the Pull Chain Dunny – C. McDonald

Main Character Syndrome – E. Greville

Monsters Don’t Say Sorry – M. Paulsen

Oliver Oates is not Stealing Goats – L. Pike

Olive’s Table – H. Friend

Skyborn – Finding Misty – M. Gibbs

The Fell Millipede – B. Kitchin

The Lost and Found Department – P. Mylonas

The Moa Riders – O. Hibbitt

The Pedlar’s Daughter – S. Odgers

The Pickey Boys of Dead Dog Mine – K. Murdock

The Prime Minister Problem – B. Cullen

The Seventh Nautilus – K. Murdock

Tuli’s Inferno – H. Karten

Velvet Krave – A. Jamae

SODO – The Missing Agent – C. Rosario

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Congratulations again! Look out soon for the Pitch It! Competition Shortlists!

To see information about the competition, including the guidelines and list of prizes, please head to the following link:

Pitch It! Competition

To see all the qualifying entries please click here.