At a special event at Asia House on Wednesday 3 October, John Haynes announced the winners of the 2012 Wasafiri New Writing Prize:
David Houston for Wish You Were Here (Life Writing)
C S Mee for The Walk (Fiction)
Sally St Clair for In the Beginning and the End (Poetry)
The winning entries are published in Wasafiri 73 Spring 2013
The 2012 Shortlist:
Life Writing
Fairytales For Everyday by Jennifer Watson
Tante Djellah by Fiona O’Brien
Formidable Women by Pamela Brown-Peterside
A Tropical Breakdown by NSR Khan
Fiction
Three Stories About Drowning by Krishan Coupland
The Jakey by Pat Black
Martyr’s Square by Christian Van Nieuwerburgh
The Six O’Clock Train by Caroline Kinya Mbaya
Poetry
In a factory by Antoinette Fawcett
The Desperate Experiments of a Farmer in Debt by Nazneen Zafar
Pastoral (Moondragon) by Stephen Logan
Glosa by Amali Rodrigo
Judges
Susheila Nasta MBE (Chair) Editor of Wasafiri and Professor or Modern Literature at the Open University
John Haynes Poet, teacher and lecturer, winner of the Costa Prize (2006), Troubadour Poetry Prize (2007) and shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize (2010)
Maya Jaggi Award-winning cultural journalist, writer, broadcaster and judge on many high-profile literary prizes
Colin Grant Writer, playwright, historian and broadcaster, most notably on BBC Radio 4 and the World Service