This event encompasses everything Seizure is about, giving newbies a chance to read their work.

FirstTimers was hosted by first-time host Portia Lindsay and started with a bang as Omar Musa orated from his debut work. Then Summer Land made us laugh along to tales of her childhood, before Jo Riccioni took us back in time to post-WW2 England. We ended with the ground shaking beneath our feet as Bruce McCabe gave us a taste of near-future terrorism.

We even had time for a few wild cards who had recently been published.