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I (Joanne C. Hillhouse<\/a>, author and Wadadli Pen founder and coordinator), zoomed today with my fellow judges,\u00a0author, publisher<\/a>, and veteran Wadadli Pen judge Floree Williams Whyte and\u00a0past winner<\/a>\u00a0and first time judge Devra Thomas.<\/p>

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After separately creating our own list of ranked entries (entries, not writers whom the judges didn\u2019t know as they read) from among 72 entries, and an average ranking from that list, guided solely by numerical ranking, leading to the posting of\u00a0a long list<\/a>, we discussed the long list, revisited the entries, lobbied and debated, and ranked, and we have a short list.<\/p>\n

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Congrats to everyone who entered for trying (that\u2019s important in #TheWritingLife) and to those who made the short list.<\/p>

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How that short list breaks down will be revealed at our Awards ceremony (which is our next project activity \u2013 details to come). But in the meantime, join us in congratulating writers short listed for the Wadadli Pen 2021 Challenge Prize.<\/p>

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The plaque bearing the main prize winners\u2019 name, which hangs in the Best of Books bookstore, got an upgrade in 2016 and is now known as the Alstyne Allen Memorial Plaque.<\/p>\n

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Eunike Caesar \u2013 The Blackboard (fiction)
\nJason Gilead \u2013 The Great Old Woodslave (fiction)
\nGazelle Zauditu Menen Goodwin \u2013 Beautiful Disaster (poetry)
\nSheniqua Maria Greaves \u2013 The Juxtaposed Reprieve (fiction)
\nAshley-Whitney Joshua \u2013 Hiraeth (fiction)
\nAunjelique Liddie \u2013 The Beach (poetry)
\nKevin Liddie \u2013 Mildred, You No Easy (fiction)
\nRazonique Looby \u2013 Vixen (fiction)
\nAndre Warner \u2013 The Brave One (fiction)<\/p>

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Congrats as well to the writers who made\u00a0the long list<\/a>. Since we mentioned only the titles and not the names before, they were (in addition to the short listed writers above) \u2013 Noleen Azille (Mission: Covered, fiction); Annachiara Bazzoni (Maybe, poetry); Aria-Rose Browne (Spirit of the Flame, fiction); Rosemund Dinard-Gordon (Emerging, poetry); Naeem Desouza (The Goat in the Rainforest of Puerto Rico, fiction); Jai Francis (The Legend of the Snowy Egret, poetry); Anastatia K. Mayers (Home, poetry); Linita Simon (The Breeze, fiction); Kadisha Valerie (The Silence was So Loud, fiction); and Latisha Walker Jacobs (Nothing Like Me, poetry).<\/p>\n

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All long listed writers will have the opportunity to participate in a workshop facilitated by me post-season\u00a0(thanks to sponsorship from one of our\u00a0patrons<\/a>) \u2013 other prizes will be announced\u00a0at the awards ceremony.<\/p>

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The winning school, i. e. the school with the most submissions, is St. Anthony\u2019s Secondary School. Congrats to them and to teachers at all schools who had to rise to meet the challenges of a most extraordinary year.<\/p>

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