Year-End Lists

The Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize: 2026 Award

Winner

• Joy Is My Middle Name

  Poems
  Sasha Debevec-McKenney

Shortlist

• To Rest Our Minds and Bodies
  Harriet Armstrong
• We Pretty Pieces of Flesh
  Colwill Brown
• Under the Blue
  Suzannah V. Evans
• Open, Heaven
  Seán Hewitt
• Borderline Fiction
  Derek Owusu

Longlist

• Chaotic Good
  Isabelle Baafi
• What Remains After a Fire

  Stories
  Kanza Javed
• The Tiny Things Are Heavier
  Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo
• Absence
  Issa Quincy
• Gunk
  Saba Sams
• Make a Home of Me
  Vanessa Santos