Join us for the 2024 Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize Finalists' Reading and find out the winner!
Sat, Oct 12, 8pm ET / Sun, Oct 13, 8am SGT
RSVP here: bit.ly/finalist-reading-24
2024 Finalists:
A WAY OF WALKING, by Chrystal Ho (Singapore)
Chrystal is a writer from Singapore who works with poetry and non-fiction. Her work has been published in PR&TA, Portside Review, and The Tiger Moth Review, among others. She is currently pursuing her Masters in Creative Writing.
FABLEMAKER, by Mandy Moe Pwint Tu (Myanmar/USA)
Mandy is a writer from Yangon, Myanmar. Her work has appeared in POETRY, Beloit Poetry Journal, Porter House Review, and elsewhere. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks, MONSOON DAUGHTER (Thirty West Publishing House, 2022) and UNSPRUNG (Newfound, 2023). She lives and teaches in Madison, Wisconsin.
NO ONE BUT THE SUN, by Shalini Rana (USA)
Shalini is an Indian American poet and translator from the U.S., currently residing in the D.C. area. She holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Arkansas. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The Bombay Literary Magazine, The Aleph Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Salt Hill, and elsewhere.
SOME OF MANY WOMEN, by Meher Manda (India/USA)
Meher is a writer originally from Mumbai, India. Author of the poetry chapbook Busted Models (No, Dear, 2019), she has work published in The Margins, Los Angeles Review, Catapult, Epiphany, and more. A Best New Poets and Best of the Net nominee, she is collaborating on a graphic novel forthcoming in 2025 and revising her debut story collection.
WITHIN EARSHOT, by Jan Dennis Destajo (Philippines)
Dennis is from Daet, Camarines Norte, Philippines. He received awards such as the 2023 Maningning Miclat Poetry Prize and the 2022 Bess Hokin Prize. His works have appeared in 5x5, Consequence Forum, Hoxie Gorge Review, Poetry Magazine, TLDTD, and more. He works as an architect in Quezon City.
Judge Ng Yi-Sheng will introduce all five finalists and announce the winner.
Ng Yi-Sheng is a Singaporean multidisciplinary writer, researcher, and activist. His poetry collections include last boy (winner of the Singapore Literature Prize 2008), Loud Poems for a Very Obliging Audience, and A Book of Hims. He has also translated Wong Yoon Wah’s The New Village and Homecomings, and edited works such as GASPP: A Gay Anthology of Singapore Poetry and Prose, SingPoWriMo 2018: The Anthology, and Exhale: an Anthology of Queer Singapore Voices. He tweets and instagrams at @yishkabob.
The Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize is awarded annually to an unpublished manuscript of original Anglophone poetry by an author of Asian heritage residing anywhere in the world. The winner receives USD1,500.00 and book publication in the US and Singapore. singaporeunbound.org/gaudyboy
