25/08/2025
The 2025 Austin Clarke Prize is open for submissions!
This year's winners will be selected by Faith Arkorful (for poetry) and Iryn Tushabe (for fiction).
In each category, the first place winner will receive $1000 and the runner-up will receive $200. The deadline to submit your work is October 24, 2025!
To learn more about the legacy of Austin Clarke and how to submit your work, visit our website: https://ex-puritan.ca/news/the-2025-austin-clarke-prize-in-literary-excellence-is-open
Iryn Tushabe is a Ugandan-Canadian writer and journalist. Most recently her nonfiction has appeared in The Walrus and in the trace press anthology river in an ocean: essays on translation. Her short fiction has been included in The Journey Prize Stories: The Best of Canada’s New Writers. She was a finalist for the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2021, and a 2023 winner of the Writers’ Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize. Tushabe’s work won the City of Regina writing Award in 2020 and 2024. Everything is Fine Here (House of Anansi, 2025) is her debut novel.
Faith Arkorful's work has appeared in GUTS Magazine, Peach Mag, PRISM International, Brick, Hobart Pulp, Canthius Magazine, The Fiddlehead, and CV2, amongst other places. Her first collection of poetry, The Seventh Town of Ghosts, was nominated for the 2025 Trillium Prize. Faith was born in Toronto, where she still resides.
