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2024 Gatewood Prize Announcement


Switchback Books is thrilled to announce the results of the 2024 Gatewood Prize. The winner is "I AM RETURNING FOR THE BODY" by Rachel Jihye Han, selected by judge Emilia Philips. Thank you to everyone who submitted manuscripts to this year’s contest. We are honored to read your work.

Congratulations also to our finalists , selected by the editors:


Finalists:

  • "Designated Stranger" by Gion Davis

  • "Certain Species of Want" by Cristi Donoso

  • "Elegies for One Small Future" by Sara Femenella

  • "How to Cast a Beautiful Animal" by Diana

    Keren Lee

  • "Voyage Happening in an Egg" by Megan McHugh


About the Author:

Rachel Jihye Han is a poet, composer, and multi-instrumentalist living in New York. She received an MFA in Poetry from Rutgers University-Newark where she currently teaches English and Poetry. A 2023 MacDowell Fellow, 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow, and 2022 Hawthornden Castle Fellow, her work has appeared in Narrative, Pleiades, Interim, Conduit, Spectra, and elsewhere.

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