2021 Alice James Award Winner Announced
Ina Cariño is Winner of the 2021 Alice James Award.
We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2021 Alice James Award is Ina Cariño of Raleigh, NC for their manuscript, FEAST. They will receive $2,000 and their collection will be published in March 2023.
Ina Cariño is a queer Filipinx writer who was born in the Philippines. Ina's work appears in Waxwing, New England Review, The Oxford Review of Books, and Tupelo Quarterly, among other journals. They hold an MFA in creative writing from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC, and were a 2019 Kundiman fellow. In 2019, they founded Indigena Collective, a reading series and project centering othered and underrepresented creatives in the NC community. Ina's manuscript FEAST was a finalist for the 2019 Jake Adam York Prize. Find out more about Ina at www.inacarino.com.
Finalists for this year’s Alice James Award were: Extinction Theory by Kien Lam, FREELAND by Leigh Sugar, How to Baptize a Child in Flint, Michigan by Sarah Carson, Impossible Wings by Joel Salcido, Site of Disappearance by Erin Malone, Steelhead by Colby Cotton, Tender Headed by Olatunde Osinaike, and What if There Were Nothing but Red Birds by Corey Zeller.
We want to thank everyone who submitted their manuscript to this year’s award. We’re incredibly grateful for the interest in and support of Alice James Books.
