We are delighted to announce the second round finalists in the Emerald Award. These people have made it through one round of reader judging to make this list and now face another round of judging on their full manuscript for a chance to go to our final judge. We congratulate them most heartily for making it this far and wish them luck with the next round! Drumroll please for (in alphabetical order):
Laura Boon
Jan Bridges
Suzanne Cass
Frances dall’Alba
Yanicke Forfang
Anna Rae Frost
Georgia Henry
Emma Hoole
Amanda Knight
AT Morgan
C Temple-Slack
Katerina Simms
And In the Emerald Pro, our second-rounders are:
Alexandra Grace
Euphrasia Holmes
Katy Scott
Thank you, as always, to our reader judges, our judge manager, contest manager and contest co-ordinator – all of whom are volunteers! – for making the Emerald happen. It’s a huge undertaking every year and we appreciate all the hard work!
Romance Writers of Australia 
Carla Caruso
/ February 6, 2016Huge well done!
Lisa Ireland
/ February 6, 2016Well done to all who reached second round. A fantastic achievement!
Amanda Knight
/ February 6, 2016Very exciting!
Amanda Knight
/ February 6, 2016Congratulations to everyone – and thank you Marnie St Claire and the judges for all your hard work!
lauraboon2014
/ February 6, 2016Congratulations everyone and I echo Amanda’s thanks to Marnie 🙂
marniestclair
/ February 6, 2016It’s my pleasure, I love managing the Emerald : )
Congratulations to all those who made it to Round 2!!!
Lilly Barrett
/ February 6, 2016Well done to everyone who made it on to the final list. 👍😄👏👏
Kandy Shepherd
/ February 6, 2016Congratulations to the finalists!
Anna Campbell
/ April 4, 2016Congratulations!