LONGLIST ANNOUNCEMENT: The Totally Free Best of the Bottom Drawer Global Writing Prize 2020

LONGLIST ANNOUNCEMENT: The Totally Free Best of the Bottom Drawer Global Writing Prize 2020

LONGLIST ANNOUNCEMENT: The Totally Free Best of the Bottom Drawer Global Writing Prize 2020

Thank you all for submitting! It has been fun, moving and inspiring to read your submissions. We received so many surprising and impressive submissions, we have had to announce many longlisted works.


Here is our very long longlist:

  1. Akshat Khare – Vanitas

  2. Allie Kerper - Pale Hairs Reach Between Us

  3. Beatriz Seelaender - All According to Norm

  4. Cassondra Windwalker - Gather, Storm and Soldier

  5. Catherine McCabe - Zombie Town

  6. Cathleen Davies - Mann, Frau & Animal

  7. Daniel Moya - Holy Goodnight

  8. Diego Gerard - Myth of Pterygium

  9. Elizabeth Coffey - And The Little One Said

  10. Ethan Klein - New Mexico or Arizona

  11. Fatima Elrify - If it is any constellation

  12. Fred Ferraris - Welcome to Barnumville

  13. Geraldine Graf - Through Place and Time

  14. Hannah Peters - The Still Child

  15. Hayden Hart – Theocrat

  16. Iman Bahmanabadi - Who Cut Your Cape?

  17. Jessica Murray - Singing Without Melody

  18. Juley Harvey - The Ransom of Orange Chief

  19. K. W. Oxnard - The Leg In Question

  20. Katrin Gibb – Soap

  21. Keith Kennedy - The Lord of Soil

  22. Madison Colantrello - Only The Dead Know

  23. Malina Douglas - The Rupture

  24. Mark Spano - Sebastian's Vigil

  25. Martin Samuel - The Caravan

  26. Mitzi Dorton - Sleeping in a Castle; The Oratory of Chief Corn Tassel

  27. MK Punky - The Year of When

  28. Nazia Kamali - Shades of Time

  29. Neal Amandus Gellaco - Sacrosanct and The Mechanic

  30. Omar Sabbagh - Dug for Gold: The Diary of a Loser

  31. Peter Johnson - White Cloud Free

  32. Sandip Saha - Trial of God

  33. Veronica Ordway - Bellows, The Empire of Light

  34. Zachary Kluckman - Rearview Funhouse


Our shorter shortlist (of 15 or less titles) will be announced early 2021, and then our winner! Good luck everyone!

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1 comment

Fred Ferraris’s book, “Welcome to Barnumville” took me back to the time when I read “Naked Lunch,” by William S. Boroughs, which Norman Mailer recommended to those who might wish to have a brave walk through the garbage of human existence to look for flowers.

Andrew Reilly

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