2022 Grouse Grind Lit Prize for V. Short Forms – Winners!

Destiny is a queer and disabled Black second-generation immigrant with roots in Jamaica. She currently resides on the traditional territory of the Erie, Huron-Wendat, Mississaugas, Haudenosaunee, and Neutral Peoples in Hamilton, Ontario. Destiny’s fiction work centers the experiences of diasporic Black femmes and grapples with themes of home/place, generational trauma and healing, and decolonization. Her short story “The River Jordan” was published in PITCH Magazine in the fall of 2021. Destiny is also a multidisciplinary artist whose work has been published in projects by Luminato Festival, SKETCH Working Arts, and other collaborative zines. Her Instagram is @_destinyeden.

Courtney Bill is currently pursuing a degree in creative writing at the University of Victoria. She lives and writes on the unceded Coast Salish Territory of the Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ nations. Her work has been shortlisted for This Side of West‘s Poetry & Prose Contest in 2021 and she serves as a fiction editor for The Warren Undergraduate Review. She also volunteers as a Reedsy Prompts Judge in her free time. She loves to write about obsession, irreverence, complicated women and the ways in which the three intersect. She looks forward to writing short fiction throughout her life and hopes to adopt a couple cats on the way.

Robert Walikis is a writer, playwright, poet, and songwriter. His short story “Peak Child” was a semifinalist for the North American Review’s 2022 Kurt Vonnegut Prize in Speculative Literature. His work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Grist Journal, Bridge Eight, Barzakh, and elsewhere.

Rob graduated from Cornell University and lives in Irvine, California with his wife-partner-writer Diana Mullins. He makes maps and tells stories. Read more at www.robertwalikis.com.

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