Wowsers! What a task the Pitch It! Competition team have had this year! This is the second year of running the competition and we are absolutely delighted with its increased reach, enthusiasm and support from the kidlit community. Thank you to everyone who put in the time and effort to enter their pitches!
Our team of judges took on the difficult task of scoring through a wide variety and high calibre of entries, each within their own categories of picture books, junior fiction and middle grade, to young adult. Massive thanks to our judges, whom, with careful consideration, approached each pitch with professionalism, objectivity and equality. Greatest appreciation goes to Debra Tidball and Kellie Byrnes (picture books), Pamela Ueckerman and Julie Anne Grasso (junior fiction / middle grade), and Kate Gordon and Nadia L King (young adult) for your tireless marking of a combined total of over 150 entries!
So, for each category, we have formulated three longlists of the TOP pitches. Congratulations to all!
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Picture Book Category
A Very Sticky Situation – C.Morgan
Dream Battles – K.Hendriks
Duke and Snickers Make a Bucket List – A.Weller
Float or Sink? – K.Covark
Grandad Wears Lipstick – S.Atkins
Growing Wild – K.Covark
Hugh and the Poo – H.Coates
Jeffery’s Dress – J.Mullen
Little Walla: True Roo – M.Crock
Mud Pie – J.Stampone
No Hat Pat – C.Fitzgerald
No Mums Allowed – C.Meatheringham
Sarah’s Sea – C.Meatheringham
Shawn the Yawn – K.Talbot
Slug and Duck – L.Ledden
Tamiko – C.Thomas
The Black – S.Wardrop
The Boy and the Bird – S.Fraser
The First Day of December – K.Munro
The Plucky Plover – M.McGay
The Secret Life of Henrietta Penfeather – A.Byrd
Tilly and the Terrible Troll – H.Gallagher
Time Out – J.Stampone
Toot Fairy – N.Bird
Willa Waggles – A.Bilston
William Loves Words – K.Baillie
You’re a Monster (But I Love You) – I.Elkner
Junior Fiction / Middle Grade Category
Dolsa Bones – R.Sharpe
Dreaming of Bollywood – C.Lander
Gretel’s Despair – A.Byrd
Jessica Dean – Amphibian Rising – L.McDermott
Locked in Hollins Department Store – D.Bray
MerTales – Meteor Magic – R.Timmis
Mystica Book 1 – D.Hughes
Nobots – A.Segal
Pepper’s Kitchen – K.Darell
Poppy and the Rescue Puppy – B.Christensen
Rex Makes a Wish – K.Malone
Stella Duke and the Sandgirl’s Curse – S.Brennan
The Girl Who Saved The Future – S.Gemmill
The Grand Old Dude Named York – R.Curnow
The Light – S.Harrison
The Mum for the Job – T.Raffa-Mulligan
The Parent Tamer – T.Raffa-Mulligan
The Sketchy Time Stoppages of Steward Kay – R.Chaney
The Three Stones of Azzaral – D.Ramsay
The Tooth Fairy’s Tree – L.Singh
When Sally met Marie Curie – M.Rivera
Where on Earth IS Mopelia Island – M.Debrett
Young Adult Category
Knock Me Dead – A.Burrows
Life Without Clouds – F.Miller-Stevens
Listen, Don’t Talk – G.Smith
Love. Live. Hero – S.Grantham
Moonlight – K.Sullivan-Rhodes
Ocean Blue – V.Croker
Papaya – L.Atkinson
Scars of Mysticayhem – C.Richer
The Dog Who Saved Me – B.Castles
The Grand Old Dude Named York – R.Curnow
The Grim Wars – J.Kuppan
The Lifters – A.Hardcastle
Congratulations again! Look out soon for the Pitch It! Competition Shortlist!Â
Good Luck! 🙂
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6 thoughts to “Pitch It! Competition Longlists 2019”
How exciting, Romi. I recognise a few names on the list. Congratulations, everyone!
Very exciting! Thanks, Norah, they’ve all done a marvellous job! 🙂
That’s right, Romi, all have.
Well done! Best wishes for the results!
Thanks Gretchen! It is exciting! 🙂
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