We’re excited to announce the results of the 2021 MAYDAY Poetry and Fiction Prizes! The winners each received $1,000 and broadsides of their work will be available soon. Submissions for the 2022 prizes will open in the spring. Judges to be announced. 2021 MAYDAY POETRY PRIZE Winner: “Garçon,” by A. Shaikh. Judge: Jacques Rancourt. Finalists […]
A. Shaikh
A. SHAIKH (he/she/they) is a queer immigrant poet raised in the tangerine summers of Texas. They are the 2021 winner of THE BOILER PRIZE, an inaugural fellow of the Strange Tools Writer's Workshop, and an Aquarius who loves the color blue. You can find their poems in Underblong, Poets.org, and elsewhere. This fall, they will continue writing as an MFA candidate in Poetry at the University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program. Their internet thoughts reside @apricotpoet.
Garçon
by A. Shaikh
This poem was selected as the winner of the 2021 MAYDAY Poetry Prize and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. A. SHAIKH (he/she/they) is a queer immigrant poet raised in the tangerine summers of Texas. They are the 2021 winner of THE BOILER PRIZE, an inaugural fellow of the Strange Tools Writer’s Workshop, and an Aquarius […]
