2009 The 2009 judges were:
Susheila Nasta (Chair),
Margaret Busby,
Mimi Khalvati and
Blake Morrison. The winners were announced by Mimi Khalvati on 31 October at the
Purcell Room,
Southbank Centre, London, with the winning entries subsequently published in
Wasafiri 61, Spring 2010.
Winners •
Fiction: Ola Awonubi for "The Go Slow Journey" •
Poetry: Rowyda Amin for "Monkey Daughter" •
Life Writing:
Bart Moore-Gilbert for "Prologue"
2010 The 2010 judges were Susheila Nasta (Chair),
Moniza Alvi,
Romesh Gunesekera and
Marina Warner. The winners were announced on October 14 at
Somerset House, London, and the winning entries were published in
Wasafiri 65, Spring 2011.
Winners •
Fiction: Jackie McCarrick for "The Visit" •
Fiction: Jane Ryan for "Minding Romiya" •
Poetry: Noel Williams for "The Anthropology of Loss" •
Life Writing:
Barbara Jenkins for "It's Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White"
2011 The 2011 judges were: Susheila Nasta (Chair),
Brian Chikwava,
Jackie Kay and
Daljit Nagra. The winners were announced by Brian Chikwava at
Bush House, London, and the winning entries were published in
Wasafiri 69, Spring 2012.
Winners •
Fiction: Michael Marett-Crosby for "Room 618" •
Poetry: Richard Scott for "Adin" •
Life Writing: Abeer Hoque for "On Growing"
2012 The 2012 judges were: Susheila Nasta MBE (Chair), John Haynes,
Maya Jaggi,
Colin Grant. The winners were announced at Asia House on Wednesday 3 October.
Winners •
Fiction: C. S. Mee for "The Walk" •
Poetry: Sally St Clair for "In the Beginning and the End" •
Life Writing: David Houston for "Wish You Were Here"
2013 The 2013 judges were Susheila Nasta MBE (Chair),
Anthony Joseph,
Tabish Khair and
Beverley Naidoo. The winning entries were published in Issue 77 of
Wasafiri in February 2014.
Winners •
Fiction: Gita Ralleigh for "Back at the Museum" •
Life Writing: Cliff Chen for "Life Exchanges" •
Poetry: Anita Pati for "A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Stealing Love"
2014 The 2014 judges were Susheila Nasta (Chair),
Bidisha,
Inua Ellams,
Monique Roffey. The winning entries were published in the Spring 2015 issue of
Wasafiri.
Winners •
Fiction: Simon van der Velde (UK) for "The Bearer" •
Poetry: Pnina Shinebourne (UK) for "Dot by dot of hurt"; Aria Aber (UK) for "First Generation Immigrant Child" •
Life Writing: Aurvi Sharma (USA) for "Seeing Double"
2015 The 2015 judges were Susheila Nasta (Chair),
Toby Litt,
Yasmin Alibhai Brown and
Roger Robinson.
Winners •
Fiction: Uschi Gatward for "My Brother is Back" •
Poetry: Amaal Said for "The Girl Grew" •
Life Writing: Louise Kennedy for "A Suitable Family"
Special commendations:
Akwaeke Emezi for "Welcome"; Richard Georges for "Bush Tea"; Sarala Estruch for "Saturdays"
2016 The 2016 judges were Susheila Nasta (Chair),
Diran Adebayo,
Imtiaz Dharker and
Vesna Goldsworthy. The winners were published in
Wasafiri 89 (Spring 2017).
Winners •
Fiction: Niamh MacCabe for "Nobody Knows the Shivering Stars" •
Poetry: Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné for "Portrait of my father as a grouper" •
Life Writing:
Shiva Rahbaran for "Massoumeh: An Iranian Family in Times of Revolution"
Special commendations: H. M. Aziz for "The Cheekovit" (Fiction); Zillah Bowes for "Dogs who like fish" (Poetry); Cheryl Anderson for "Round Yard" (Life Writing)
2017 The 2017 judges were Susheila Nasta (Chair),
Sabrina Mahfouz,
Andrea Stuart and
Boyd Tonkin. The winners were announced on 19 October at The People's Palace,
Queen Mary University of London.
Winners •
Fiction: Ndinda Kioko for "Some Freedom Dreams" •
Poetry: Mehran Waheed for "Petit Navire" •
Life Writing: Julie Abrams-Humphries for "Crinoline Lady"
Special commendations: "Seven Hells" by Zaid Hassan (Fiction); "What Yung Thug's Colour Theory Best Describes As An Open Wound Or Open Letter" by
Momtaza Mehri (Poetry); "Bentong! Go Back to Bentong!" by Aliyah Kim Keshani (Life Writing)
2018 The 2018 judges were Susheila Nasta (Chair),
Elleke Boehmer,
Malika Booker and
Kerry Young. The winners were announced on 25 October at The Blenheim Saloon,
Marlborough House.
Winners •
Fiction: Deidre Shanahan for "Plunder" •
Poetry: Daniella Shokoohi for "In the Garden Where the Gorgons Live" •
Life Writing: Len Lukowski for "Diary of a Teenage Boy"
Special commendations: "The Other Things in the Blood" by IfeOluwa Nihinlola (Fiction); "Babes in the Wood" by Maeve Henry (Poetry); "Feeding Grief to Animals" by Rebecca Parfitt (Life Writing)
2019 The 2019 judges were Susheila Nasta (Chair),
Louise Doughty (Fiction),
Warsan Shire (Poetry) and
Nikesh Shukla (Life Writing).
Winners •
Fiction: Alicia Mietus for "Third Person Female" •
Poetry: Desirée Seebaran for "Picong" •
Life Writing: Ruby D. Jones for "Natural Causes"
Special commendations: Erica Sugi Anayadike, "How to Marry an African President" (Fiction); Joanna Johnson, "Pantoum of Soldiers" (Poetry); E. S. Batchelor, "Human Resources" (Life Writing)
2020 The 2020 judges were Simon Prosser (Fiction),
Raymond Antrobus (Poetry) and
Aida Edemariam (Life Writing), chaired by
Kadija Sesay.
Winners •
Fiction:
Sharma Taylor (Barbados) for "How You Make Jamaican Coconut Oil" •
Poetry:
Yasmine Seale (Turkey) for "Conventional Wisdom" •
Life Writing:
Sharanya Deepak (India) for "Seamless"
Special commendations: Adam Zmith for "Holding on" (Fiction); Emily Pritchard for "Cutting water" (Poetry); Minifreda Grovetszki for "When you think I'm hurrying you but you're taking an eternity over every damn thing" (Life Writing)
2021 The 2021 judges were Hirsh Sawhney (Fiction),
Christie Watson (Life Writing),
Tishani Doshi (Poetry), and
Andrew Cowan (Chair).
Winners •
Fiction:
Kate Carne (UK) for "First to Go" •
Poetry:
Dipanjali Roy (India) for "सफ़रनामा / Safarnama" •
Life Writing:
Anne O'Brien (Ireland) for "Swallow"
2022 The 2022 judges were
Marina Salandy-Brown (Chair),
Preti Taneja (Fiction),
Mary Jean Chan (Poetry), and
Francesca Wade (Life Writing).
Winners •
Fiction: Sylee Gore (Germany) for "Cloud Archive" •
Poetry: Hasti (UK) for "I have fallen from my dream of progress" •
Life Writing: Nadine Monem (UK) for "Salt Prints"
2023 The 2023 judges were
Diana Evans (Chair),
Leila Aboulela (Fiction),
Caleb Femi (Poetry), and
Aanchal Malhotra (Life Writing), who praised the "urgent topical weight, maturity, and technical skill" of the winners and shortlistees, announced in October 2023.
Winners •
Fiction: Sharika Nair for "That Which We Call A Rose" •
Poetry: Swati Rana for "Mother, Earth—A Colloquy" •
Life Writing: Nasia Sarwar-Skuse for "Absent Presence"
2024 The 2024 judges of the prize were
Margaret Busby (Chair),
Isabel Waidner (Fiction),
Cristina Rivera Garza (Life Writing), and
Meena Kandasamy (Poetry). The winners were announced on 23 October as:
Winners •
Fiction: Thảo Tô for "Love in the Time of Migration" •
Life Writing: Joey Garcia for "A Public Space" •
Poetry:
Nasim Łuczaj for "the village" ==References==