Austin Clarke Prize 2024 Shortlists

January 8, 2025

We're so thrilled to share the shortlists for the 2024 Austin Clarke Literary Prize in Excellence! These pieces were chosen by our judges Canisia Lubrin (fiction) and Liz Howard (poetry).

Fiction

"Mom Camp" by Véronique Darwin
"The Light That Interrupts" by Aaron Tucker
"Paradise Lost" by Ashish Kaul
"L'Arret Retourner" by Ryan Boggs
"Strange Children of the Sour Gas" by EC Dorgan

Poetry

"Smoke Signifies Fire Signifies Smoke" by Jade Palmer
"hybridity as a phantom body" Jordan Redekop-Jones
"Dive Bar in DC" by Claire Daitch
"Ballad of an Indonesian Jackal" by Juliana Putri Tan
"Hyssops in a Wormhole, Purple til the End" by Rijaa Khan

Congratulations to the shortlisted writers; the winners and runners-up will be featured in our double issue next week!