A huge thank you to everyone who submitted to our competition – we had well over 400 entries, which is amazing! We’ve been reading away and slowly whittling down to a longlist, which will be announced on TUESDAY 25th JULY. So do keep your eyes on the Guppy Twitter account and we’ll make sure the longlist is posted on here first thing.

The standard has been incredibly high this year and it has been such a pleasure to read so many good stories. And that makes our job of longlisting very hard indeed! I hope those of you who don’t make it on to the longlist are not too disappointed – and thank you again for entering.