Griffith Review 2024 Emerging Voices winners announced

Griffith Review has announced the five winners of its 2024 Emerging Voices competition: Lily Holloway, Sarah Kanake, Myles McGuire, Kobi Simpson and Emily Tsokos Purtill.

Holloway is a powerlifting enthusiast and third-year MFA candidate at Syracuse University, with writing appearing in a range of publications, and a debut chapbook released in 2021; Kanake is a short story writer, creative writing teacher and novelist with a PhD in creative writing, who has published a novel (Sing Fox to Me, Affirm, 2016) as well as short fiction; McGuire is a writer whose work has appeared in Griffith Review, Australian Literary Studies and Voiceworks; Simpson is a young father, gardener, writer, and ‘wannabe-luddite’ whose Nunga heritage, family, passion for strangeness, and ADHD hyper-fixations motivate his writing, with work forthcoming in several anthologies; and Purtill is a former lawyer of Greek heritage, with a debut novel, Matia, releasing through UWA Publishing in October.

Chosen from over 300 entries by a judging panel including writer Maxine Beneba Clarke, literary agent Jane Novak and NewSouth publisher Harriet McInerney alongside Griffith Review editorial staff, the winning writers share in a $20,000 prize pool, and their stories will appear in 2025 editions of the publication.

Griffith Review editor Carody Culver said: ‘Emerging Voices is an invaluable way for us to discover and platform new writing talent, and we can’t wait to share the winning stories with our readers in 2025.’

This is the fourth year that the Emerging Voices competition has run. Last year’s winners were Alex Cothren, Scott Limbrick, Brooke Maddison and Beau Windon.

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