Our winners for 2022 are:
The 1st Prize and The Opportunity Centre award goes to Suad Kamardeen for Never Enough
2nd Prize goes to Latoyah Innerarity for Sometimes the Sky is Blue
3rd Prize goes to Laura Fish for Lying Perfectly Still
The SI Readers’ Choice award for 2022, given to the favourite shortlisted entry chosen by some 50 readers drawn from membership of Soroptimist International and readers from across the UK, goes to: Laura Fish for Lying Perfectly Still
Congratulations to all our writers, and to everyone to entered this year’s Prize! We wish you all the best with your writing career and look forward to seeing your writing on our bookshelves in the years to come.
You can watch the award announcement here:
SI Leeds Prize 2022 – Full Award Film 16-9.mp4 from SI Leeds Literary Prize on Vimeo.
Remembering Laura Fish
Sadly, our 2022 SI Readers’ Choice Award winner, Dr. Laura Fish, passed away shortly before the publication of her prize-winning novel, Lying Perfectly Still.
This important and beautifully written novel gives voice to the women of Eswatini in southern Africa, ravaged by the AIDS epidemic of the late twentieth century. Laura was in the country in the ‘90s and saw the impact it had upon women and families. Lying Perfectly Still is told through the eyes of Koliwe, a troubled young woman of mixed-race heritage, searching for her African roots, while overwhelmed by the devastation of the country she finds and the inadequacy and corruption at the heart of the aid community for which she works.
It is Laura’s third novel. You can read more about her legacy here.
