The HSLG Committee are delighted to announce that bestselling author, Louise Phillips, has kindly agreed to judge the HINT Fiction Competition. All entries have now been received and the winner and runner-up will be announced in the new issue of HINT, which is due out soon!

Louise Phillips is an Irish Times Bestselling author of six crime novels, five of which were shortlisted for the Best Irish Crime Novel of the Year in the Irish Book Awards. Her second novel, ‘The Doll’s House’, won the award. Her novels have been published in the U.S., and she has been longlisted for the Crime Writers Association (CWA) Dagger in the Library Award in the U.K. Her fifth novel, The Hiding Game, was optioned by a major U.S. film company, and her sixth novel, ‘They All Lied’ was published last year to critical acclaim. A regular public speaker, panellist and facilitator, Louise has also been a judge on the Irish panel for the EU Literary Award. In 2022 she was also awarded an Arts Bursary for Literature from the Arts Council of Ireland, as well as winning the Jack Harte Award for her latest work- in-progress, ‘In All the Unexpected Places’.