PREE 15
Photo credit: Suzie Benjamin. Posted on Instagram by Diana McCaulay with the following note: A bird that builds rafts. I think this is the nest of a pied-billed grebe, or diver, with a single egg. I stand to be corrected by bird experts. Taken at the Mona Reservoir yesterday. A small waterbird builds this elaborate construction on water using only its beak and then floats nearby, guarding, until the egg hatches. Respect.
The prompt for our fifteenth issue was the precarity, fragility and vulnerability felt by the microstates of the Caribbean and others in the face of the global wars rapidly reshaping our world. Awards of USD 1000, 750 and 500 were awarded to the three most outstanding submissions. Richard Georges was the judge, for a note from him and a listing of awardees please see here.
And the PREE 15 Awards Go to…
ART-icles
Siempre Vuelvo… I Always Return
MONICA MARIA GARABITO
FICTION
The Sea Come for Ismaida
AMANIE MATHURIN
Shortlisted
Primordial Soup
RACHEL CHIN
Touching Ground
JESSIE MAYERS
Eye
GRACIE MAE BRADLEY
THIRD PLACE WINNER
Continuity
KEVIN JARED HOSEIN
Bodysurfing
DOMINIQUE LYEW
Ti Kais (Chattel House)
YAKIMA CUFFY-BAZIL
Shortlisted
Brackish
CHRISTIAN EMECHETA
Village League
SHASTRI SOOKDEO
Shortlisted
The Education of Marlene Joseph
OLUWANIFEMI BAKARE
The Fisherman
SHEHRYAR SARWAR
Shortlisted
Piece of Sea
SAMARA BABOOLAL
Festival of Lights
JUDY RAYMOND
Stargazing
RAHEEM OMEIZA
The Unbuilding of a Universe
DARREN DOYLE
NONFICTION
FIRST PLACE WINNER
Nothing Moves in Straight Lines
CHIDERA UDOCHUKWU-NDUKA
HONOURABLE MENTION
The Price of a Full Gele
FAITH EGWUCHUKWU
POETRY
In The Heavy Rain; Chary; Chaperone
RHEA MANLEY
Shark Bait
TANICIA PRATT
Shortlisted
Three Poetic Studies From “A Count”
SONIA FARMER
…Oh, and a Woman Long Past Menopause
CELIA A. SORHAINDO
Shortlisted
Ballad of St. Lazzar
IDE THOMPSON
Please Teacher; Third World Poem; A Gaze At Gaza
WINSTON FARRELL
Antoinette; If She Jumped
ADA M. PATTERSON
Reader-Woman
JENELLE SAMUELS
The Haunted Sea; Dangerous Disturbances
NADINE TOMLINSON
Shortlisted
Anansi Bruk it Up: An Epic
EMILY ZOBEL MARSHALL
The Arrival and Other Poems
JAMIR NAZIR
Carrying a Mother Load
CORINNE BINNINGS
POETRY (contd)
The Squirrel That Go So
DONAUTA WATSON
Shortlisted
On Becoming a Storm: Three Poems After Melissa
ROLANDO ALBERTS
Ode to the John Crow; Directions to Maroon Cemetery
TOPHER ALLEN
Voyage in Three Parts
YASMINA CABRERA
SECOND PLACE WINNER
Through Babylon and Other Poems
GEORGIO RUSSELL
Dear Comrade; Behind Glassed Walls
NADJA ADORA NABBIE
Syncretism
YVONNE WEEKES
Peace
ANTOINETTE TIDJANI ALOU
Cuba A Bawl Living Eye Wata
COURTNEY CONRAD
The Empty Boat
TRESHA LIONEL
On the need to form an alliance
EUGENE ELIRA
My Mother Folded My Father’s Guayaberas and other Poems
AMILCAR SANATAN
Gyal; Re-member You
KEISHA-GAYE ANDERSON