Winners Announced

Winners of the 2023 AAALS Indigenous Writers Prize: CREATIVE PROSE:

Victoria G. Williams, Warraimaay: “The Perfume Pagoda: Travels with My Mother”

POETRY: Nicola Andrews, Ngāti Paoa: Hinting at Decolonization”

Winner of the 2023 AAALS Fiction and Nonfiction Prize: Jane N. Downing: “Slippery Jacks”

Honorable Mention Dani S. Netherclift: “Beneath These Surfaces”

Winner of the 2023 AAALS Poetry Prize: Gershon D. Maller: “Mnemonics for Thelonius Monk”

Antipodes will publish these works in an upcoming issue.

Thank you to the judges of the 2023 AAALS Creative Writing Competition:

• AAALS Fiction & Nonfiction Prize: Rain Wright and Catherine Padmore

• AAALS Poetry Prize: Ann-Marie Blanchard, Susan Bradley Smith, and Mackenzie Kozak

• AAALS Indigenous Writers Prize: Jenny Fraser (Migunberri Yugambeh) and Vaughan Rapatahana (Te Ātiaw

Watch this space for news about the 2024 competition.