Announcing the Winners of the 2025 Austin Clarke Prize

Dear Readers,

We are excited to share the winners and runners-up of the 2025 Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence!

To ground your reading experience, we recommend starting with our feature essay "'Don't scratch too deep or I'll bleed': Archiving with Austin" by Matthew Monrose.

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence are...

• "Thousands of Longings Like These" by Madeeha Hashmi (Fiction)
• "WALTER" by Hadiyya Kuma (Poetry)

Congratulations to these writers on their excellent work! We extend congratulations also to our runners-up...

• "You, like" by Kailash Srinivasan (Fiction)
• "I had to get out" by Adam Arca (Poetry)

Thank you to our incredible judges, Iryn Tushabe and Faith Arkorfull, as well as to all who submitted. Congrats again to these amazing writers!