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PITCH JERICHO COMPETITION 2024<\/h1>
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Our pitch competition saw over one thousand entries! Plus, lots of full manuscript requests for our shortlisted writers. Pitch Jericho will return in 2025.<\/div>
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<\/i>Online Live Final on 31 May 2024<\/div>
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Announcing the Pitch Jericho winner<\/h2>\r\n
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Huge congratulations to Sam Packer whose winning pitch was chosen by our audience during the grand final event. Check out his winning pitch below!<\/p>\n

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\u00a0‘A priest\u2019s faith is shaken when he dies, and instead of finding heaven, he is born again… and again, and again.’\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Announcing the Pitch Jericho shortlist<\/h2>\r\n
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We received over 1000 entries into our Pitch Jericho competition in 2024! The shortlist, who were invited to read their pitch live in our online final in front of a panel of top literary agents, are:<\/p>\n

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Rea Rhine<\/p>\n

Pam Plumb<\/p>\n

Nanou Blair Gould<\/p>\n

Julie-Ann Corrigan<\/p>\n

Ben Reeves<\/p>\n

Julia Burrows<\/p>\n

Lucy Wilson<\/p>\n

Cecilia Gregani<\/p>\n

Tracey Brown<\/p>\n

Jack Roe<\/p>\n

Chloe Charlton-Peel<\/p>\n

Boo Latham<\/p>\n

Emily Anderson<\/p>\n

Sam Packer<\/p>\n

Catherine Haines<\/p>\n

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Announcing the Pitch Jericho longlist<\/h2>\r\n
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Announced during our grand final, these writers made our Pitch Jericho 2024 longlist with their pitches. Congratulations!<\/p>\n

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Chithrupa Gurumoorthy | Geoff Dutton | Glynis Woodhead<\/p>\n

Jenni Riddalls | Alick Deacon | Celia Sutterby | Natalie Sands<\/p>\n

Alice Laybourne | Jacqui Pack | Simon Lyons | Victoria Brown<\/p>\n

Jari Van Meirvenne | Catherine Griffin | Claudia Lambert | Niamh Gibbs<\/p>\n

Cal Mitchell | Emily Packer | Cat Houlihan | Siobhan Jackson<\/p>\n

Kerry Hodges Jonny Watts | Trudi Urlwin | Gianna Pickup<\/p>\n

Anna Pietrzkiewicz-Read | Emilie Castera | Mike Blakemore | Nat\u00e0lia Prats<\/p>\n

Ste Durham | Katherine Clark | Rosalind Yarde-Jumbe<\/p>\n

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How it works<\/h2>

Entries closed on Friday 3 May 2024 at 16:00pm BST.<\/p>\n

To enter, we asked writers to submit an elevator pitch that was a single sentence and under 50 words. We welcomed fiction and non-fiction submissions.<\/p>\n

Our Premium Members entered for free. Entry was also available for \u00a310 and included an invite to our grand online live final and access to a masterclass.<\/p>\n<\/div> <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n

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The Final<\/h2>

Our fifteen shortlisted writers read their pitches live during our online finale event on 31 May 2024 to a panel of agents.<\/p>\n

Thank you to our agents Sian Ellis-Martin from Blake Friedmann, Jo Williamson from Antony Harwood and Hannah Schofield from LBA Books for joining us – and requesting full manuscripts from our shortlisted writers!<\/p>\n

Premium Members and entrants can now catch up on the final event. If that’s you, make sure you are logged in and return to this page, the link is above.<\/p>\n<\/div> <\/div>\r\n

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The Prize<\/h2>

The overall winner, chosen via audience poll during the event, received:<\/p>\n