Winner: The Campbell Gardens Ladies’ Swimming Class by Vrushali Junnarkar
Shortlisted
The Enigmatic Madam Ingram by Meihan Boey
The Disappearance of Patrick Zhou by Ally Chua
Gus: The Life and Opinions of the Last Raffles' Banded Langur by Jon Gresham
Longlisted
Jellyfish Folklores: Bubble Princess The Curse of the Masked Island by Tina Afiqah
Fellow Freaks by Nuril Basri
Little Cloud of Bukit Brown by Vicky Chong
The Singapore Candidate by Daniel Leong
Swimming Lessons. by Malcom Seah
Joke of a Dream by Sam See
Winner: The Accidental Malay by Karina Robles Bahrin
Shortlisted
We Do Not Make Love Here by Nisha Mehraj
Lost Treasure of the Lanfang Republic by Tan Lip Hong
Every School a Good School by Ng Ziqin
Longlisted
Claiming Susan Chin by Tham Cheng-E
Gardens at Phoenix Park by Wong Souk Yee
Lor Ark Kuang by Tan Chew Ngee
Janjih by Pudarno Binchin
Lying Eyes by A.K. Kulshreshth
Fragile Magics by Ryo Alfar
Co-Winners:
The Formidable Miss Cassidy by Meihan Boey
And the Award goes to Sally Bong by Sebastian Sim
Shortlisted
Kopi, Puffs & Dreams by Pallavi Gopinath Aney
Lovelier, Lonelier by Daryl Qilin Yam
The Punkhawala and The Prostitute by Wesley Zeon Aroozoo
Blue Sky Mansion by H.Y. Yeang
Longlisted
There’s No Such Thing as a Skinny Bibik by Sandra Chua
The Witch Doctor’s Daughter by Kathrina Mohd Daud
The Pencil by Andre Yeo
Yñiga by Glenn Diaz
The Four-Number Ghost by Muthu Ramiah
Vanishing by Wipas Srithong
Winner: How the Man In Green Saved Pahang, and Possibly the World by Joshua Kam
Shortlisted
A Good True Thai by Sunisa Manning
The Fisherman King by Kathrina Mohd Daud
The Java Enigma by Erni Salleh
Longlisted
Tinhead City, KL by Stuart Danker
The Good Guys by Darren Chen
The Keepers of Stories by Suffian Hakim
The Flesh Hunters by Jocelyn Suarez
Children of the Ark by Teo Xue Shen
Wonderlust by Carissa Atrianty
Winner: Impractical Uses of Cake by Yeoh Jo-Ann
Shortlisted
Beng Beng Revolution by Lu Huiyi
The Lights That Find Us by Anittha Thanabalan
The Movie That No One Saw by May Seah
Longlisted
Secret Buried Under the Ancestors’ Skin by Pranav S Joshi
The East Was Red by Kuah Yan Guang
God of Gaps by Hajar Ali
Light Over The Well by Marcus Ong Kah Ho
Winner: The Riot Act by Sebastian Sim
Shortlisted
Sofia and the Utopia Machine by Judith Huang
9th of August by Andre Yeo
Nimita's Place by Akshita Nanda
Longlisted
18 Walls by Teo Xue Shen
Kallang Basin Adagio by Khor Kuan Liang
If It Were Up to Mrs Dada by Carissa Foo
Band Eight by Tham Cheng-E
Revenge by Su-Min Lim
Ghost of the Tiger Lady by Cheryl Chen
Winner: The Gatekeeper by Nuraliah Norasid
Shortlist
Fox Fire Girl by O Thiam Chin
Surrogate Protocol by Tham Cheng-E
State of Emergency by Jeremy Tiang
Longlisted
Lieutenant Kurosawa’s Errand Boy by Warran Kalasegaran
Misdirection (Book One of The Savant Trilogy) by Ning Cai
The Last Immigrant by Lau Siew Mei
Lion Boy and Drummer Girl by Pauline Loh
Cicadas and Frankincense & The Arches of Gerrard Street by Grace Chia
Saviour by Andrew Ngin
Winner: Now That It’s Over by O Thiam Chin
Shortlisted
Let's Give It Up for Gimme Lao! by Sebastian Sim
Death of a Perm Sec by Wong Souk Yee
Sugarbread by Balli Kaur Jaswal
Longlisted
Annabelle Thong by Imran Hashim
Kappa Quartet by Daryl Qilin Yam
Altered Straits by Kevin Martens Wong