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!

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