2022 SHORTLIST
Short Fiction
Kyla St Jaye - Holding Patterns
Clare Testoni - Love Language
Wes Lee - Delia
Poetry
Verity Laughton - In Which Miranda Returns to Her Island
Brittany Riley - Persephone
Romy Tara Wenzel - Gorgon
Kathryn Reese - Transform
Jane Frank - Nefertiti
Sara C. Motta - pink gum
Lin Blythe- E-poc-h
Alisha Brown - Rapunzel
Alisha Brown - Femininity
JUDGE’S COMMENTS
We were both thrilled and overwhelmed to receive more than 350 entries to the anthology and award in 2022; so, in addition to the prize longlist we have complied highly commended lists for entries in each category.
All long-listed entries will be published in this year’s Heroines Anthology (vol.4.)
Writing prize winners will be announced at the Heroines Anthology Volume 4 launch event in November.
- Prize Judges & Anthology Editors: Sarah Nicholson & Lore White
Alisha Brown's poem 'Rapunzel' was the winner of the 2022 Heroines / Joyce Parkes Women's Poetry Award. Listen to Alisha's beautiful reading of this extraordinary poem:
2022 WRITING PRIZE LONGLIST
POETRY
Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon
Verity Laughton
Wes Lee
Brittany Riley
Sarah Temporal
Beth Spencer
Romy Tara Wenzel
Kathryn Reese
Paris Rosemont
Rachael Mead
Jan Napier
Alisha Brown
Jane Frank
Sara C. Motta
Emily Tsokos Purtill
Alicia Sometimes
Lin Blythe
SHORT FICTION
Clare Testoni
Emma Darcy
Wes Lee
Emily Paskevics
Kathryn SImons
Jude Aquilina
Janeen Samuel
Kyla St Jaye
Kerry Munnery
Emily Gray
Arielle Bodenstein
Rachel Flynn
Highly Commended
Ann Erskine
Judyth Emanuel
Colleen Keating
Alison Gorman
Nicole Melanson
Maria Vouis
Ruth Melville
Samantha Leah
Linda Godfrey
Kerry Greer
Diane Fahey
Carolyn Gillum