Past Winners & Judges
2017
Winners
Open Category
Kirsti Bohata and Alexandra Jones, 'Welsh Women's Industrial Fiction 1890-1910', Women's Writing, 2016, DOI: 10.1080/09699082.2016.1268346
New Scholars Category
Daniel Hughes, '(Lynette writing about) Nesta: Recollection, Reclamation and Reconstruction in Lynette Roberts's "lost" novel'
Judges
Open Category
Kirsti Bohata and Alexandra Jones, 'Welsh Women's Industrial Fiction 1890-1910', Women's Writing, 2016, DOI: 10.1080/09699082.2016.1268346
New Scholars Category
Daniel Hughes, '(Lynette writing about) Nesta: Recollection, Reclamation and Reconstruction in Lynette Roberts's "lost" novel'
Judges
- Professor David Lloyd (Le Moyne College, Syracuse, USA
- Dr Sarah Morse (Learned Society of Wales)
- Dr Alyce von Rothkirch (Swansea University)
2016
Winners
For the full press statement regarding the 2016 result, please click here.
- 'Open' category: Professor David Lloyd (Le Moyne College, Syracuse, USA), ‘Brenda Chamberlain and American Modernism’, International Journal of Welsh Writing in English, 3 (2015), pp. 21-47.
- 'New Scholars' category: Nathan Llewelyn Munday (Cardiff University), ‘“Ann heard him speak, and Pantycelyn”: The unexpected relationship between R. S. Thomas, Williams Pantycelyn and Calvinistic Methodism’ (unpublished).
- Dr Heather Williams (Centre of Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth)
- Dr Emma Schofield (Cardiff University)
- Dr Alyce von Rothkirch (Swansea University)
For the full press statement regarding the 2016 result, please click here.
2015
Winners
- 'Open' category: Dr Heather Williams (Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth) for ‘Iolo Morganwg, Edward Williams and the radically bilingual text: Poems Lyric and Pastoral (1794)’, International Journal of Welsh Writing in English, 2 (2014), 147-67.
- 'New Scholars' category: Jamie Harris (Aberystwyth University) for an unpublished version of the essay that is forthcoming as ‘Iain Sinclair: “Born in (South) Wales, 2001”’ in the International Journal of Welsh Writing in English, 3 (2015).
- Dr Aidan Byrne (Wolverhampton University)
- Dr Matthew Jarvis (Aberystwyth University/University of Wales Trinity Saint David)
- Dr Alyce von Rothkirch (Swansea University)
2014
Winners
- 'Open' category: Dr Matthew Jarvis (Aberystwyth University/University of Wales Trinity St. David) for ‘In/Human Place: The Poetry of John Barnie’, in Zoë
Skoulding and Ian Davidson, eds, Placing Poetry (Amsterdam:
Rodopi, 2013), 149-68.
- 'New Scholars' category: Lisa Sheppard (Cardiff University) for an unpublished version of the essay that is forthcoming as ‘Pulling Pints Not Punches: Linguistic Tensions in the Literary Pubs of Wales’ in the International Journal of Welsh Writing in English, 3 (2015).
- Dr Tomos Owen (Bangor University)
- Professor Diana Wallace (University of South Wales)
- Dr Alyce von Rothkirch (Swansea University)
2013
Winners
- 'Open' category: Professor Sarah Prescott (Aberystwyth University) for an unpublished version of an essay subsequently published as ‘Archipelagic Coterie Space: Katherine Philips and Welsh
Women’s Writing’, Tulsa Studies in Women’s
Literature, 33.2 (Fall 2014), 51-76.
- 'New Scholars' category: Dr Mary Chadwick (Aberystwyth University) for ‘“Walking Conundrums”: Masquerades, Riddles and National
Identity in Late Eighteenth-Century Wales’, in Stewart Mottram and Sarah Prescott, eds, Writing Wales, from the Renaissance to
Romanticism (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012), 167-82.
- Dr Kevin Mills (University of Glamorgan)
- Professor Damian Walford Davies (Aberystwyth University)
- Dr Alyce von Rothkirch (Swansea University)
2012
Winners
- Winner: Dr Kevin Mills (University of Glamorgan) for ‘Broken Hallelujah’, in John Schad and Oliver Tearle, eds, Crrritic! Sighs, Cries, Lies, Insults, Outbursts, Hoaxes, Disasters, Letters of Resignation, and Various Other Noises Off in These the First and Last Days of Literary Criticism (Sussex Academic Press, 2011).
- Specially commended: Jessica George (Cardiff University) for ‘“Mixed-Up Creatures”: Identity and its Boundaries in Arthur
Machen’s Weird Tales’, Almanac: Yearbook of Welsh Writing in English, 15 (2010-2011), 29-46; and Patrick Toal (Bangor University) for ‘“Playing the old anthropomorphic game”: R. S. Thomas’s ‘Middle
Period’ and the Rhetoric of Theological (Im)Possibility’, Almanac: Yearbook of Welsh Writing in English, 15 (2010-2011), 112-38.
- Professor Susan Bassnett, University of Warwick
- Dr Katie Gramich, Cardiff University
- Dr Alyce von Rothkirch, Swansea University
