2016

Prize Winner:
Mary Horgan, About Change: Ali Smith’s Numismatic Modernism

In addition, the following essays have been selected for Special Commendation:

Imogen Mathew, Educating the Reader in Anita Heiss’ Chick Lit

Emilia Borowska, Politics, Passion and Abstraction in Kathy Acker’s “Russian Constructivism”

Oliver Penny, The true reflection of the perverse origins of his desire: The Extraneous Phallus in Angela Carter’s Love

2017

Elisa Serna-Martinez , ‘She scrape she knee’: The Affective Politics of Scars as Agents of Female Caribbean Resistance in Opal Palmer Adisa’s Work

In addition, the following essays have been selected for Special Commendation:

Amber West, Through the Funhouse, Towards the Dead World: An Argument for a Puppet-Based Production of Adrienne Kennedy’s Funnyhouse of a Negro

Stacey Amo, Tasting Otherness, Othering Tastiness: Monique Truong’s Bitter in the Mouth