Longlist—LIMINAL & Pantera Press Nonfiction Prize 2021

Announcing the 2021 Liminal & Pantera Press Nonfiction Prize Longlist

In proposing the 2021 Liminal & Pantera Press Nonfiction Prize, we sought writing on the notion of the archive; writing that troubled institutional accounts of history, or considered the politics of the personal archive; writing that queried what each of us chooses to remember, memorialise or forget.

Our readers had the difficult and wonderful privilege of selecting the longlist, and we are thrilled to share the twenty writers who have been longlisted, and whose writing will feature in our forthcoming essay collection with Pantera Press (2022).

Nonfiction Prize Longlist

André Dao
Barry Corr
Brandon K. Liew
Elizabeth Flux
Frankey Chung
Grace Ugamay
Hannah Wu
Hasib Hourani
Hassan Abul
Jon Tjhia
Kasumi Borczyk
Lou Garcia-Dolnik
Lucia Tường Vy Nguyễn
Lur Alghurabi
Mykaela Saunders
Ouyang Yu
Ruby-Rose Pivet-Marsh
Ryan Gustafsson
Suneeta Peres da Costa
Veronica Heritage-Gorrie

Highly Commended

The prize received such an incredible calibre of writing that the prize readers would also like to commend these writers for their work—

Amy Duong
Donnalyn Xu
James Nguyen
Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker
Lydia Terry
Maria Hach
Neha Kale
Reina Takeuchi
Wen-Juenn Lee

To every writer who entered, we thank you. We are keenly aware of the guts, hard work and courage it takes to write in this world, let alone submit to a writing prize. We hope to have more exciting projects and prizes for you to enjoy and enter in the future.