This year Britain's biggest literary competition for the Ian St James Awards, is being run by ACCLAIM, the magazine of the New Writers' Club, and one of several innovations has been the introduction of a two-tier award system. Writers have had the choice of writing up to 100000 words or, for the first time, up to 5000 words. There are 16 finalists this year, selected from thousands of entries. This book contains all their entries.