2021 Lancaster Writing Awards

The Lancaster Writing Award for Criticism

1st – Priya Abularach Eliot’s Presentation of Women within ‘The Waste Land’ read

2nd – Lidia Goonatilaka How does Shakespeare create comedy in Act 3, Scene 1 of Twelfth Night? read

3rd – Rachel Cliffe A critical commentary on how Duffy reflects suffering felt by women through the criticism of their appearance in the selected extract from ‘The Diet’ making reference to other poems in Feminine Gospels read

The Lancaster Writing Award for Prose Fiction

1st – Cordelia Faram Someone Else is Wearing My Body read

2nd – Eleanor Clark Flights read

3rd – Emma Oakes the static of your radio read

The Lancaster Writing Award for Poetry

1st – Joyce Chen February read

2nd – Isobel Dixon I Awoke to the Sound of a Creaking Floorboard read

3rd – Maia McDonald Persephone read

The Lancaster Writing Award for Screen-Writing

1st – Mia Davison Frank read

2nd – Bronwyn Payne Untitled read

3rd – Vaishnavi Rajesh Labels read