Astraea

In August 2024 we are publishing winner of the inaugural Weatherglass Novella Prize. On the judging experience Ali Smith said: ''The shortlist, in totality, was one of the most pleasurable and exciting things I''ve read in quite some time. The ways in which its writers dealt with the short-but-long/long-but-short constraints of the form; the problems and the opportunities that this gave them; and the remarkable standard of the writing from entry to entry made me wish that Weatherglass could publish the whole shortlist to remind the reading world that the novella form is a kind of marvel and show everyone that these writers have caught the shine and the life of it.''