Odd Voice Out is an independent literary press, publishing YA and crossover stories filled with unique characters thrown into extraordinary circumstances. Our genre-bending books take contemporary social and political themes and explore them through a range of historical, futuristic, surreal and supernatural settings. Our diverse young heroes are never your typical leading guys and girls, but are flawed insecure misfits struggling with everything from racial and sexual identity, body issues, disabilities, mental health and worst of all, being teenagers growing up in worlds gone mad.        

 
THE RESULTS
We are very proud to announce the prize winners and finalists for our first OvO short story competition Not So Normal Narrators. We've been thrilled with the high standard of the entries we have received, a quarter of which came from under 18s. Over the next few months we will be working with our finalists to produce OvO's first anthology collection, which will include all our Top 10 entries, an introduction from author Catherine Johnson and new bonus stories from K.C. Finn and Kell Cowley. More details to come in our next newsletter! 

WINNER (£200 prize)
Breathe by Eddie House

SECOND PLACE (£100 prize)
For Hugo by Tonia Markou

THIRD PLACE (£50 prize)
The Silence Rock by Mary Ball Howkins

FINALISTS
Anchor by Colby Wren Fierek
Imago by Jack Bumby
Love Makes Everyone (into Poets) by Oceania Chee
Oblivisci by A Rose
Piano Wire by Rowan Curtis
Shoplifting by Frances Copeland
Size of Rice by Sabah Carrim