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WINNING WRITERS
FIRST PLACE
Fiction 18-21
Sarah Dean
Sarah Dean is an MA Creative Writing student at the University of Derby. She works as a museum assistant while studying and, in her spare time, writes stories about her life, gay robots and condescending river spirits. "Consider an Apartment in Washington" will be her first published story with Streetcake Magazine.
Fiction 22-26
Ula Taylor-Reilly
Ula Taylor-Reilly (b. 1995) was born in Glasgow and grew up in Hampshire. She graduated from Fine Art BA at Goldsmiths University of London in 2019. As well as printmaking and photography, speech and prose are central to her practice, which often deals with misogyny, in particular notions of internalisation, subjugation, and pathologisation. Fictionalisation of
bodily, historical, or social realities is a central methodology of recalcitrance in Taylor-Reilly’s practice, an actant deconstruction of patriarchal linguistic and bureaucratic structures.
Poetry 18-21
Leia Butler
Leia Butler is a 2nd-year university student studying Creative Writing. She most enjoys writing experimental poetry and
short stories. Her goal of writing is to deliver something unique and interesting, and something that will make readers stop
to think.
Poetry 22-26
Michael Sutton
Michael Sutton is a writer from Liverpool, England. His work has been published in The Menteur, The Gateway Review and The State of the Arts. His poem "Bailiwick" is anthologised in Birds Fall Silent in the Mechanical Sea. He currently studies Creative Writing at Edge Hill University where he is the recipient of the Rhiannon Evans Poetry Award.
SECOND PLACE
Fiction 18-21
L.H.S.
L.H.S studies and works in South London. L.H.S has been writing for a while now I guess, often in short enthusiastic bursts disgruntled by dyslexia. L.H.S enjoys crispy tasteless things and walks in the park.
Fiction 22-26
Lauren Orange
Lauren grew up in Sydney, Australia and relocated to London in 2019. She studied psychology and is now working in
research while she pursues writing. Her short stories have been shortlisted for the first time in various local competitions
this year, and she is currently working on a novel.
Poetry 18-21
Vivian Li
Vivian Y. L. is a Seattle-born, London-based artist and writer. Inspired by the cities and metropolitan spaces she has been to
or stayed, various spaces are examined in her research and practice — transitory and perpetual, abject and complicit, virtual
and artificial, oneiric and surreal, material and immaterial, personal and collective liminal interspaces. Spanning across multimedia installations, moving image, performance, and language, her works are an exploration of tropes of power dynamics, the gaze, institutions, cosmopolitanism, existence, and the subtlety of violence. In the conjuration of a blended
actuality, she seeks to present a study of the phenomena and infrastructural connotations of interspaces and non-places, and the contingencies of the embodied in-between in peripatetic contexts.
Poetry 22-26
Yvonne Litschel
Yvonne Litschel is a writer and artist living in London. She has previously performed as part of the European Poetry Festival. Her work has been featured in two Sidekick Books anthologies as well as magazines such as The Interpreter's House,
Tears In The Fence, and The Projectionist's Playground. Following her debut pamphlet Moth Dust, published in January
2018 by Sampson Low, she has published a pamphlet entitled Immurement with Broken Sleep Books in April 2019, and
is set to release ræfs with Ghost City Press in August 2019 as part of their summer micro-chap series.
yvonnelitschel.com @yvlitschel
THIRD PLACE
Fiction 18-21
Grace Tompkins
Grace Tompkins is a prize-winning author and artists currently living in Manchester. She graduated recently from Newcastle University, garnering the highest-grade dissertation in her class and winning the Cowan, Johnson and Watson Prize for Best File of Original Literary Work. She likes long walks on the beach, grilled cheese sandwiches, and Hubert Selby jnr.
Fiction 22-26
Ana Dukakis
Ana is a Narrative Designer working on mobile and tabletop games. Having previously studied English Literature and
Creative Writing, she is passionate about exploring and creating stories in all the forms they can take. In her spare time she
writes small tabletop RPGs and short stories, and attempts to nurture a family of unruly plants.
Poetry 18-21
Laurence Waters Blundell
Currently producing from south-west London, Laurence Blundell is a writer of post-modern and experimental poetry. His work takes an alternative glance at modern life, realising the surreal and reimagining the mundane. As a multi-media artist, music production and poetry sit at the forefront of Laurence's projects, and shall remain there for some time.
Poetry 22-26
Callum Beesley
Callum lives with his family in Deal, Kent where you’ll find him writing by the sea or in the haunted chair at his local Pub. Fixated by tales of the supernatural, Callum fell in love with the classic Victorian-Edwardian Ghost Stories of MR James, Edith Wharton and EF Benson from a young age. Find him on Twitter @callum_beesley
ABOUT THE PRIZE
the streetcake experimental writing prize is one of the first of its kind, aimed at young people (18-26 years old), who are creating writing that extends the possibilities and boundaries of the contemporary literature mold. we want to recognise
and develop writers in this age band, who will shape the future of experimental writing and bring new ideas to the genre.
the submission period was open from march 4th 2019 and closed on 21st june 2019.
PRIZES
the first place winners received six personalised mentoring sessions from our dedicated and experienced judges.
other prizes included personalised feedback from the streetcake editors and book bundles. all wining entrants were also
published in a hardcopy anthology.
FIRST PLACE
Fiction 18-21
Sarah Dean
Sarah Dean is an MA Creative Writing student at the University of Derby. She works as a museum assistant while studying and, in her spare time, writes stories about her life, gay robots and condescending river spirits. "Consider an Apartment in Washington" will be her first published story with Streetcake Magazine.
Fiction 22-26
Ula Taylor-Reilly
Ula Taylor-Reilly (b. 1995) was born in Glasgow and grew up in Hampshire. She graduated from Fine Art BA at Goldsmiths University of London in 2019. As well as printmaking and photography, speech and prose are central to her practice, which often deals with misogyny, in particular notions of internalisation, subjugation, and pathologisation. Fictionalisation of
bodily, historical, or social realities is a central methodology of recalcitrance in Taylor-Reilly’s practice, an actant deconstruction of patriarchal linguistic and bureaucratic structures.
Poetry 18-21
Leia Butler
Leia Butler is a 2nd-year university student studying Creative Writing. She most enjoys writing experimental poetry and
short stories. Her goal of writing is to deliver something unique and interesting, and something that will make readers stop
to think.
Poetry 22-26
Michael Sutton
Michael Sutton is a writer from Liverpool, England. His work has been published in The Menteur, The Gateway Review and The State of the Arts. His poem "Bailiwick" is anthologised in Birds Fall Silent in the Mechanical Sea. He currently studies Creative Writing at Edge Hill University where he is the recipient of the Rhiannon Evans Poetry Award.
SECOND PLACE
Fiction 18-21
L.H.S.
L.H.S studies and works in South London. L.H.S has been writing for a while now I guess, often in short enthusiastic bursts disgruntled by dyslexia. L.H.S enjoys crispy tasteless things and walks in the park.
Fiction 22-26
Lauren Orange
Lauren grew up in Sydney, Australia and relocated to London in 2019. She studied psychology and is now working in
research while she pursues writing. Her short stories have been shortlisted for the first time in various local competitions
this year, and she is currently working on a novel.
Poetry 18-21
Vivian Li
Vivian Y. L. is a Seattle-born, London-based artist and writer. Inspired by the cities and metropolitan spaces she has been to
or stayed, various spaces are examined in her research and practice — transitory and perpetual, abject and complicit, virtual
and artificial, oneiric and surreal, material and immaterial, personal and collective liminal interspaces. Spanning across multimedia installations, moving image, performance, and language, her works are an exploration of tropes of power dynamics, the gaze, institutions, cosmopolitanism, existence, and the subtlety of violence. In the conjuration of a blended
actuality, she seeks to present a study of the phenomena and infrastructural connotations of interspaces and non-places, and the contingencies of the embodied in-between in peripatetic contexts.
Poetry 22-26
Yvonne Litschel
Yvonne Litschel is a writer and artist living in London. She has previously performed as part of the European Poetry Festival. Her work has been featured in two Sidekick Books anthologies as well as magazines such as The Interpreter's House,
Tears In The Fence, and The Projectionist's Playground. Following her debut pamphlet Moth Dust, published in January
2018 by Sampson Low, she has published a pamphlet entitled Immurement with Broken Sleep Books in April 2019, and
is set to release ræfs with Ghost City Press in August 2019 as part of their summer micro-chap series.
yvonnelitschel.com @yvlitschel
THIRD PLACE
Fiction 18-21
Grace Tompkins
Grace Tompkins is a prize-winning author and artists currently living in Manchester. She graduated recently from Newcastle University, garnering the highest-grade dissertation in her class and winning the Cowan, Johnson and Watson Prize for Best File of Original Literary Work. She likes long walks on the beach, grilled cheese sandwiches, and Hubert Selby jnr.
Fiction 22-26
Ana Dukakis
Ana is a Narrative Designer working on mobile and tabletop games. Having previously studied English Literature and
Creative Writing, she is passionate about exploring and creating stories in all the forms they can take. In her spare time she
writes small tabletop RPGs and short stories, and attempts to nurture a family of unruly plants.
Poetry 18-21
Laurence Waters Blundell
Currently producing from south-west London, Laurence Blundell is a writer of post-modern and experimental poetry. His work takes an alternative glance at modern life, realising the surreal and reimagining the mundane. As a multi-media artist, music production and poetry sit at the forefront of Laurence's projects, and shall remain there for some time.
Poetry 22-26
Callum Beesley
Callum lives with his family in Deal, Kent where you’ll find him writing by the sea or in the haunted chair at his local Pub. Fixated by tales of the supernatural, Callum fell in love with the classic Victorian-Edwardian Ghost Stories of MR James, Edith Wharton and EF Benson from a young age. Find him on Twitter @callum_beesley
ABOUT THE PRIZE
the streetcake experimental writing prize is one of the first of its kind, aimed at young people (18-26 years old), who are creating writing that extends the possibilities and boundaries of the contemporary literature mold. we want to recognise
and develop writers in this age band, who will shape the future of experimental writing and bring new ideas to the genre.
the submission period was open from march 4th 2019 and closed on 21st june 2019.
PRIZES
the first place winners received six personalised mentoring sessions from our dedicated and experienced judges.
other prizes included personalised feedback from the streetcake editors and book bundles. all wining entrants were also
published in a hardcopy anthology.
QUERIES/CONTACT
if you have any queries about the prize, please email: streetcakeprize@gmail.com
if you have any queries about the prize, please email: streetcakeprize@gmail.com
JUDGES
here are our amazing 2019 judges / mentors:
here are our amazing 2019 judges / mentors:
fiction - ed cottrell
Ed Cottrell was born and brought up in Oxford and now lives in Brighton. His fiction is published in journals including Brittle Star, Structo and Neon Magazine. He was the 2018 winner of the Desperate Literature Prize for short fiction, was shortlisted for the London Short Story Prize in 2017, and selected for Spread the Word’s 'Platform' artist development scheme the same year. He is an alumni of Writers’ Centre Norwich’s Escalator programme, was a writer in residence at Toji Cultural Foundation (South Korea) in 2015, and a visiting writer at the Civitell Ranieri Foundation, Italy, in 2018. He currently works as Digital Content Editor at Modern Poetry in Translation.
Ed Cottrell was born and brought up in Oxford and now lives in Brighton. His fiction is published in journals including Brittle Star, Structo and Neon Magazine. He was the 2018 winner of the Desperate Literature Prize for short fiction, was shortlisted for the London Short Story Prize in 2017, and selected for Spread the Word’s 'Platform' artist development scheme the same year. He is an alumni of Writers’ Centre Norwich’s Escalator programme, was a writer in residence at Toji Cultural Foundation (South Korea) in 2015, and a visiting writer at the Civitell Ranieri Foundation, Italy, in 2018. He currently works as Digital Content Editor at Modern Poetry in Translation.
fiction - nik perring
Nik Perring is a prize-winning short story writer and the author of five books. His work has appeared in many fine places all over the world including Smokelong, Word Riot, 3 :AM Magazine, and The Fiction Desk. It’s also been read on the radio and performed on stage. Nik’s also an editor, teacher of writing, and mentor for all ages, and is writer in residence at two high schools.
His online home is www.nikperring.com
Nik Perring is a prize-winning short story writer and the author of five books. His work has appeared in many fine places all over the world including Smokelong, Word Riot, 3 :AM Magazine, and The Fiction Desk. It’s also been read on the radio and performed on stage. Nik’s also an editor, teacher of writing, and mentor for all ages, and is writer in residence at two high schools.
His online home is www.nikperring.com
poetry - sj fowler
SJ Fowler is a poet, writer and artist. He has published seven collections of poetry, three of artworks, four of collaborative poetry plus volumes of selected essays and selected collaborations. He has been commissioned by Tate Modern, BBC Radio 3, Whitechapel Gallery, Tate Britain, the London Sinfonietta, Wellcome Collection and Liverpool Biennial. He is lecturer in creative writing and english literature at Kingston University and is the director of Writers' Centre Kingston and European Poetry Festival.
www.stevenjfowler.com
SJ Fowler is a poet, writer and artist. He has published seven collections of poetry, three of artworks, four of collaborative poetry plus volumes of selected essays and selected collaborations. He has been commissioned by Tate Modern, BBC Radio 3, Whitechapel Gallery, Tate Britain, the London Sinfonietta, Wellcome Collection and Liverpool Biennial. He is lecturer in creative writing and english literature at Kingston University and is the director of Writers' Centre Kingston and European Poetry Festival.
www.stevenjfowler.com
poetry - sascha akhtar
Sascha Akhtar’s poetry has been widely anthologised, translated and performed internationally at festivals such as the Poetry International Festival Rotterdam, and Southbank Centre’s MELTDOWN festival London curated by Yoko Ono. Sascha has been part of poetry protests – Against Rape (Peony Moon, 2014) and Solidarity Park Poetry – Poems for the Turkish resistance (Ed. 2013). Her poetry collections include 199 Japanese Names for Japanese Trees (Shearsman, 2016) and poems with visual art as a Tarot pack entitled Only Dying Sparkles (ZimZalla, 2018). She is currently hard at work on translations from Urdu of a genre-defying pioneering feminist Pakistani fiction writer Hijab Imtiaz ( Oxford University Press India). Sascha has a few things coming besides in 2019 such as a chapbook The Whimsy of Dank Ju-Ju (Emma Press), a full-length collection Astra Inclinant (Contraband Press) & #LoveLikeBlood (Knives Spoons and Forks Press). Poems from #LoveLikeBlood will be part of the Blackpool illuminations in 2019. In March Sascha is teaching a workshop “Technicians of the Sacred: The Poem As A Magical Event,” at the Poetry School London. Her fiction is in Storgy, The Learned Pig, Tears In The Fence, BlazeVoxand Anti-Heroin Chic.
F: @ChoisirLeMotJuste Tw: @AkhtarSascha
Sascha Akhtar’s poetry has been widely anthologised, translated and performed internationally at festivals such as the Poetry International Festival Rotterdam, and Southbank Centre’s MELTDOWN festival London curated by Yoko Ono. Sascha has been part of poetry protests – Against Rape (Peony Moon, 2014) and Solidarity Park Poetry – Poems for the Turkish resistance (Ed. 2013). Her poetry collections include 199 Japanese Names for Japanese Trees (Shearsman, 2016) and poems with visual art as a Tarot pack entitled Only Dying Sparkles (ZimZalla, 2018). She is currently hard at work on translations from Urdu of a genre-defying pioneering feminist Pakistani fiction writer Hijab Imtiaz ( Oxford University Press India). Sascha has a few things coming besides in 2019 such as a chapbook The Whimsy of Dank Ju-Ju (Emma Press), a full-length collection Astra Inclinant (Contraband Press) & #LoveLikeBlood (Knives Spoons and Forks Press). Poems from #LoveLikeBlood will be part of the Blackpool illuminations in 2019. In March Sascha is teaching a workshop “Technicians of the Sacred: The Poem As A Magical Event,” at the Poetry School London. Her fiction is in Storgy, The Learned Pig, Tears In The Fence, BlazeVoxand Anti-Heroin Chic.
F: @ChoisirLeMotJuste Tw: @AkhtarSascha
SPECIAL THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING:
joe ruddock, sam ruddock, alec newman of kfs press, spread the word, the helpful staff at ACE,
people who have given support to the prize, and our passionate judges.
thanks also to our partner, whitechapel idea store:
joe ruddock, sam ruddock, alec newman of kfs press, spread the word, the helpful staff at ACE,
people who have given support to the prize, and our passionate judges.
thanks also to our partner, whitechapel idea store:
