A playwright has featured on the Dylan Thomas Prize longlist for the first time since it was launched in 2006.
Polly Stenham's latest offering, No Quarter, is on the 12-strong list along with eight novels and three poetry works - nine of which are making their debut.
The Prize was established as one of the world's highest paying literary awards for writers under 30 from around the world to celebrate the legacy of Swansea poet and writer Dylan Thomas.
Californian author Maggie Shipstead, 29, was awarded with the £30,000 prize money at an awards ceremony held in Swansea's National Waterfront Museum in November.
Chair of the Prize, Peter Stead, said: "This year's longlist is an eclectic list of considerable variety, taking us from war torn Sudan to the 2003 firestorms raging through British Columbia, with stops along the way in rioting Johannesburg, the scorched landscape of Nevada and Hindu festivals in Darjeeling among other places.
The 2013 judges are includes the founder of the Hay Festival, Peter Florence, novelist and Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson, author, singer and BBC 6 music presenter Cerys Matthews, journalist and author Carolyn Hitt, commentator and artist Kim Howells, Guardian Review journalist Nicholas Wroe, poet and English professor at the University of Texas Kurt Heinzelman and Chairman of the Dylan Thomas Prize, Peter Stead.
The deadline for all entries for the Dylan Thomas Prize 2013 is June, 28, 2013. Criteria and submission details are available online at www.dylanthomasprize.com
The winner will be announced at an awards ceremony in Swansea in November.Dylan Thomas Prize 2013 LonglistProse
Emma Chapman How To Be A Good Wife (Picador)
Tim Leach The Last King Of Lydia (Atlantic)
Prajwal Parajuly The Gurkha's Daughter (Quercus)
Marli Roode Call It Dog (Atlantic)
Julie Sarkissian Dear Lucy (Hodder & Stoughton)
Majok Tulba Beneath The Darkening Sky (Oneworld)
Claire Vaye Watkins Battleborn (Granta)
D.W. Wilson Ballistics (Hamish Hamilton)Poetry
James Brookes Sins Of The Leopard (Salt)
Jemma L. King The Shape Of A Forest (Parthian)
David Shook Our Obsidian Tongues (Eyewear)Drama
Polly Stenham No Quarter (Faber)
