Previous EACWA Award Winners

2025

Prose

Danielle Bradley – “Preserves

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Poetry

Paramita Vadhahong – “the dead sell the living”

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Honorable Mention

Dana Serea – “What Does It Mean to be a Woman in Afghanistan?

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Honorable Mention

Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi – “electrocardigram of a mother’s broken heart”

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2024

Prose

Maryam Ala Amjadi – “The Ice Seller of Hell

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Poetry

Winniebell Xinyu Zong’s “Translations of Ba’s Recipe for COVID Prevention” will be published in Volume 24, Number 1.

Learn more about Winnibell Xinyu Zong here.

Honorable Mention

Amissa Miller’s Honorable Mention, “Heart like an Ocean” is set to be published in a forthcoming issue.

Honorable Mention

Shiv K’s Honorable Mention, “Pride Was a Riot, But Mine Was Different” will be published in a forthcoming issue.


2023

Poetry

Yalie Kamara – “American Beech”

Learn more about Yalie Kamara here.

Poetry

Cece Roth-Eagle – “Mes del viento/Month of wind


2022

Poetry

Barbara Jane Reyes – “Daughtersong Diaspore”

Learn more about Barbara Jane Reyes here.


2021

Prose

Gwendolyn Maya Wallace – “To Forage”

Learn more about Gwendolyn Maya Wallace here.


2020

Prose

Adrienne Perry – “Lamaze”

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Poetry

Nancy Kang – “In Blocks of Light, She Calls Back”

Read more about Dr. Kang here