The 2015 Wasafiri New Writing Prize winners and shortlist
Winners:
Uschi Gatward for My Brother is Back (Fiction)
Amaal Said for The Girl Grew (Poetry)
Louise Kennedy for A Suitable Family (Life Writing)
In addition, the following three entrants were given special commendations:
Akwaeke Emezi for ‘Welcome’
Richard Georges for ‘Bush Tea’
Sarala Estruch for ‘Saturdays’.
Shortlist.
FICTION
My Brother is Back by Uschi Gatward
Postscript from the Black Atlantic by Koye Oyedeji
Welcome by Akwaeke Emezi
After the End of England by Gillian Best
This is how it ends by Paul Howarth
LIFE WRITING
A Suitable Family by Louise Kennedy
The Lotus Instructions by Jo Stones
Hospital Notes by Alice Curham
Dreaming in Latin by Jill Widner
Saturdays by Sarala Estruch
Red Glow in the Night by Ann Field
POETRY
Bush Tea by Richard Georges
Israeli Summer by Janine Rich
The Girl Grew by Amaal Said
I keep trying to lose my body by Amaal Said
Under the Tamarind by Royston Emmanuel
Judges
Susheila Nasta MBE (Chair) – Editor of Wasafiri and Professor of Modern Literature at the Open University
Toby Litt – Writer and academic in the Department of English and Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London
Yasmin Alibhai Brown – Ugandan-born British journalist and author
Roger Robinson – Trinidadian writer and musician based in the UK. Chosen by Decibel as one of 50 writers who have influenced the black British writing canon.