2022 Austin Clarke Prize: Announcing the Shortlist!
We’re so excited to share the shortlists for the 2022 Austin Clarke Prize, chosen by judges Casey Plett (fiction) and Doyali Islam (poetry)!
Fiction
- “A Trip to the City” by James Reese
- “Like Triumph” by Damian Tarnopolsky
- “JJ Gets A Diagnosis” by Margo LaPierre
- “Preserves” by Mariapaula Acevedo Ruiz
- “Dispatches on the Woeful Origins of the Town's Bicycle Tour” by Thomas Froh
Poetry
- “Backyard Fence” by Tea Gerbeza
- “My Father Tells Me about the Yugoslavian Civil War” by Tea Gerbeza
- “Internal Conflicts” by Moni Brar
- “Can we locate souls in space? The pairing problem, solved” by Manahil Bandukwala & Liam Burke
- “before dispossession there was just soil” by Moni Brar
Stay tuned for the announcement of the winners and runners-up (and the launch of our fall issue) on Wednesday!
