Contemporary Women's Writing Essay Prize Winners
Past Winners
2024: Deirdre Canavan, "A break with tradition: Gail McConnell’s post-conflict elegy."
2023: Kimberley Mather, “The Destruction of Cherished Ideals: Examining the Idealisation of the Butch as Queer Object through Kadji Amin’s Disturbing Attachments and S Bear Bergman’s Butch is a Noun"
2022: Cristina Cruz-Gutiérrez, “Postromanticizing the Nigerian Nation in Chinelo Okparanta’s Under the Udala Trees and Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀’s Stay with Me”
And the following entry was selected for Special Commendation: Lauren Cooper, “Life after Rape: Haunted Life-writing, Refusing to Die and Reconceptualising Rape Survival through Autotheory”
2020: Gemma Marr
“‘What your father tries to make you be’: Reading Regional Masculinities in Lynn Coady’s Fiction”
2019: Ashwiny O. Kistnareddy, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, UK
Against the Flow: Exile and Willful Subjects in Malika Mokeddem’s Mes hommes [My Men] and Kim Thúy’s Vi
2018: Sabine Ruth Sharp, Manchester University, UK
Salt Fish Girl and “Hopeful Monsters”: Using Monstrous Reproduction to Disrupt Science Fiction’s Colonial Fantasies
2017: Elisa Serna-Martinez, Universidad de Granada, Spain
The Affective Politics of Resistance in the Work of Opal Palmer Adisa
2016: Mary Horgan, King's College London, UK
About Change: Ali Smith’s Numismatic Modernism
