20/40 Publishing Prize 2025

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‘This year’s (fiction) winner, Anna by 
Angus Gaunt, is the best yet. 

Anna becomes a universal tale of displacement and finding oneself beyond one’s circumstance. It’s dark, with only the odd flicker of light to give hope. And damn it’s good.’

— Bram Presser


‘This little powerhouse of a memoir is at once raw and entirely relatable.

With stark and humorous honesty, Kim takes us by the hand and allows us to step inside her mind… I devoured this book in one sitting and then sat for almost just as long again contemplating it.’

— Theresa Smith, Theresa Smith Writes

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