First Prize

Chen Cuifen
MA Creative Writing, Class of 2021 

Entry: “What My Net Dragged to the Surface” 

The winning poem, “What My Net Dragged to the Surface”, was praised by judge Jo Shapcott for its “skilful emotional structuring, made to look like a disordered heap of this and that, but with items and layers forensically selected as the poem moves down the page, gathering in a momentum of feeling.” 

Read the poem here.