Winners:
Life Writing
Cliff Chen for Life Exchanges
Poetry
Anita Pati for A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Stealing Love
Fiction
Gita Ralleigh for Back at the Museum
The winning entries were published in Issue 77 of Wasafiri in February 2014.
Shortlist:
Life Writing
Tool by Mat Woolfenden
Swinging Low by Jacqueline Crooks
Life Exchanges by Cliff Chen
Escape Routes by Kaveri Woodward
and here it is by Richard Wotton
Fiction
Breathing by Orla McAlinden
Far from Home by Cliff Chen
Back at the Museum by Gita Ralleigh
Beauty of Reality by Anubha Yadav
If Hans Could See Her Now: A Transformation of Anderson’s “Little Mermaid” by Bethany Swale
Poetry
Isabella by Ron Carey
38 to Islington by Liz Bahs
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Stealing Love by Anita Pati
Kama Sutra by Amali Rodrigo
For Difficult Daughters by Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné
This year’s judges:
Susheila Nasta MBE (Chair) Editor of Wasafiri and Professor of Modern Literature at the Open University
Anthony Joseph Poet, novelist, academic and musician, author of three collections of poetry and a novel, The African Origins of UFOs
Tabish Khair Award-winning novelist, poet and critic, shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2010
Beverley Naidoo Writer for children and adults and winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Josette Frank Award